A Motorcycle Venture Away from Totalitarianism: "Fleeing the Children's Crusade" Is a Must Read for the History Buff or Anti-War Pacifist

Jump onto the saddle, hold on, and don't let go, for this cycle is headed away from evil and into freedom. Otto Krueger, a Waffen SS recruit, begins to question his Nazi ideology after he witnesses the pure evils of power excess and extreme fascism.

(PRWEB) November 13, 2005 -- Are you a reader wishing to read a novel about totalitarianism not from the liberators side, which is most common in current novels, but from the almost unspeakable perspective of the enemies, where many were too indoctrinated by their beliefs to realize their actions were heinous?

Comments on "Fleeing the Children's Crusade" by fellow readers and accomplished authors:

"Such a controversial, yet enlightening work of literature, needs to be read by all the disenchanted and directionless youth of this era" - Ron Carlson, Arizona State University Regents Professor of English, host on Channel 8 Books & Co, and author of, Plan B for the Middle Class, Truants, The Hotel Eden, At the Jim Bridger, and A Kind Of Flying

“A stunning achievement of war realism, the novel takes the reader into the depths of fascism and extreme totalitarianism and show’s us an escape from its evils.”    Dr. Michael Brentford

“A remarkable and imaginative book. I’ve never read such a book like it. The author is in Nazi Germany and tells us what he sees through the eyes of a dissenting Waffen SS soldier who refuses to take the next step into manhood or should I say, total indoctrination into the Nazi ideal. A must read. There is not a novel like this out there with such a true and deep meaning. This is big.” Joseph Sotello

Word War II and the final collapse of Hitler's Nazi Empire form the backdrop to "Fleeing the Children's Crusade," an anti-war novel.

At its center are Otto Krueger, a seventeen year old soldier who cannot handle manhood and its obligations; Hermann Schuler, a boy who gets revenge on his cheating mother by throwing himself into battle without personal regard to his own safety; and Vera, a Yugoslav partisan who is saved from rape and the horrors of totalitarianism. As the story follows two German soldiers experiences through basic training, leave, the rigors of combat, and escape from their horrible predicament, it closely chronicles the confusion and comraderie that arise from war.

The novel can be found at this website address: http://travisgodbold.tripod.com

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