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The Wave
- Author
- Todd Strasser
- Narrator
- Michael Crouch
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 1 October 2019
- Run Time
- 3 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding.
The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hitler Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader.
All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten.
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Details
- Author
- Todd Strasser
- Narrator
- Michael Crouch
- Duration
- 3 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781980062325
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying and harassment, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories
Synopsis
This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hitler Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader. All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten.
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