The Butterfly Boy
- Authors
- Klinger, Tony
- Publisher
- AUK Authors
- Tags
- second world war , first world war , hitler , german , jewish , nazis , mouth painter , handicapped , resistance , polio , christian underground , artist
- ISBN
- 9781782346838
- Date
- 2013-02-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.76 MB
- Lang
- en
The Butterfly Boy takes the reader on a dramatic, sweeping journey through two World Wars in Germany and races on around the globe throughout that tumultuous century. The Butterfly Boy is the story of Arnie, who as a small boy loses the use of his arms through polio, yet conquers this to grow up to be the "greatest mouth painter in the world." Born in a sleepy German town Arnie rises to become one of Hitler's favourite artistes despite his handicap and his Jewish mother. Arnie risks his like to undertake covert activities for the allies and the Christian resistance movement. Arnie matures into a great handsome bull of a man, who, despite not having the use of his arms still manages to be a great womanizer and hell raiser. The conflict between Arnie and his childhood nemesis, now senior Nazi officer, Ratwerller, is a battle to the death that slashes through their lives like a sharpened razor. They stop at nothing to seek the destruction of one another. After the war Arnie, The Butte...