A BOYS WAR. With charm and humour, a 92 year old Viennese writer invites you on a journey back in time to the last three years of World War Two.

In the first year, you take part in a perilous journey to his grandmother's home in the country. In the second year, you live through the happy, and often hilarious, evacuation of his class to a small town in Hungary. After a short stay in the Vojvodina, you barely make it back to Austria and narrowly escape the bombing once there. After suffering through a pre-military training camp, you are drafted to dig anti-tank ditches near the Hungarian border. In the last month of the war, your only choice is to become a member of a local Hitler Youth unit where you fight in the battle for Vienna and subsequently join in the retreat to the west.

To better understand all these events, the author explains the historical, geographical, and ideological circumstances, putting you in the action and making you a member of his family.