Fireshadow

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Fireshadow (2004) is a novel written by Australian writer Anthony "Tony" Eaton and first published by University of Queensland Press. It is set in World War I and it deals with two German boys living in Australia and the hardships that they deal with.

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Taking place during World War II, Fireshadow follows two seventeen-year-old boys. Erich Pieters joins the German Wehrmacht to fight for Chancellor Adolf Hitler in 1941, and winds up in an Australian Prisoner of War camp after fighting in North Africa. Half a century later, Vinnie Santiani flees into the remote Australian Bush in an effort to cope with the tragic death of his sister. Despite the fact that they live in different epochs, the boys' lives intertwine in the novel with haunting results. A reviewer for Magpies commented that the award-winning book's "language is exceptional throughout ... while the author's insights into the emotional lives of the young people are sensitively conveyed."^{[citation needed]}