Download or read book Before Their Time written by Robert Kotlowitz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in this memoir of his experiences as a teenage infantryman in the US Third Army during World War II, Kotlowitz brings to life the harrowing story of the massacre of his platoon in northeastern France, in which he--by playing dead--was the only one to survive. 208 pp. 15,000 print.