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Summer of My German Soldier is a 1973 book by Bette Greene. The story focuses on the friendship between a young Jewish-American girl and an escaped German POW in a small town in the Southern United States during World War II.
- Bette Greene
- 1973
Summer of My German Soldier is a 1978 American television film based on the 1973 novel of the same name written by Bette Greene. Set during World War II, it stars Kristy McNichol as a Jewish -American girl and Bruce Davison as the German prisoner of war whom she befriends.
- Drama Romance Historical
Summer of My German Soldier: Directed by Michael Tuchner. With Kristy McNichol, Bruce Davison, Esther Rolle, Michael Constantine. A young American girl meets a German prisoner of war.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Michael Tuchner
- 1978-10-30
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Jan 1, 1973 · Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene tells the story of a Patti, a tortured and abused Jewish girl during World War II who houses and falls for a Nazi Soldier who escaped from a POW camp in their small southern town.
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Patty Bergen is twelve years old and school is out for the summer in her small Arkansas town where nothing much ever happens - that is, until this summer, when a prison camp for German prisoners of war captured during World War Two is opened and the first prisoners arrive.
Apr 20, 2006 · Bette Greene's first novel, Summer of My German Soldier, hailed as "an exceptionally fine novel" by the New York Times, has become a modern classic. Published in 1973, this beloved book has inspired an Emmy Award#150;winning television film and a recent stage musical.
- Bette Greene
Summer of My German Soldier (1973) is a young adult novel by American author Bette Greene. The book is heavily based on Greene’s own childhood in Arkansas and Tennessee during World War II and her experiences growing up Jewish in the conservative Christian South.
