Unlikely Warrior

Wesley Adams at Farrar, Straus and Giroux pre-empted world English rights to Georg Rauch's memoir An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army. Rauch, who died in 2006, was 18, part Jewish, and living in Austria when he was drafted in 1943. The book is pitched as an "indelible portrait of a reluctant soldier's battle for survival." Publication is planned for winter 2015; Emmanuelle Morgen at Stonesong brokered the deal.