The Men They Counted (The Unbroken Name)
In 1914, German Jews marched to war for the country they called home. They fought in the trenches, earned decorations for bravery, buried their comrades, and died beneath the same flag as their fellow soldiers.
Yehuda is one of them.
A fiercely loyal German and observant Jew, Yehuda serves through the horrors of the First World War while battling an enemy no one around him can see: an obsessive mind that demands certainty where none exists. On the battlefield, he learns to act despite fear and doubt. But in 1916, Germany confronts him with a different kind of uncertainty.
The army begins counting its Jewish soldiers.
What begins with the Judenz hlung, the infamous "Jew Count," becomes something even more disturbing after Germany's defeat. Men who fought for their country begin hearing that Jews never truly fought at all. That they avoided the front. That they profited while others died. That somehow, Germany had been betrayed from within.
Yehuda knows the truth because he was there.
So were the men whose names he refuses to forget.
The Men They Counted is a historical graphic novel about German Jewish soldiers of the First World War, the approximately 100,000 who served, the 12,000 who died, and the lie that began erasing their sacrifice almost as soon as the guns fell silent.
Book III of The Unbroken Name Trilogy.
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