Book Recomendation

     I highly recommend the book The Night Children by Alexander Gordon Smith. This book is set during World War two and follows an american troop through Germany for about a week. I know some of you think this will be a boring book with nothing but fighting in it and partially you are correct. Throughout the book things happen that don't seem possible. The book gets its name from the monstrous things that roam the forests at night. These things are described on page 97 as follows, "These things looked like humans that had been cut open, stuffed with 200 extra pounds of muscle and then sewn back together. When they took you during the night all you heard was a laugh that should have belonged to a 6 year old then you would be gone." (Smith, 97). Taking the sound of the laughter and the way they acted the troop began to call them Night Children.

     This book is very interesting in how the author chooses to present certain information about characters. Also this book has a lot of myths that were spread throughout entire countries such as Hitler's scientists performing tests on live humans. This book has a lot of truth in it in the form of names, troops, location, and also how the dead troops were found. These scenes were described by Corporal Donnie Brixton, the only living survivor of her platoon. She described the experience like this, "This place was like hell only it was below freezing and you were still alive. You could feel emotion and now I have to remember this for the rest of my life." (Smith, 22) This just shows how brutal the conditions were during the war. Maybe this book will give you a new perspective on just how hard it is for a former soldier I sure gained a new respect for them.