It takes the average reader 2 hours and 17 minutes to read His Story Is My Story by Elke McKee
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Stories of Elke McKee's German soldier father making his way home after World War II ends but is captured and turned over to the Russians. He spends years in a Russian prison labor camp. The author first meets her father at age eleven in east Germany following his release in 1955. He recovers from prison despite impairments, adapts to home life, a new daughter, and the German government job he held before the army. Their lives improve. Elke ultimately moves to the US where this biography updates her life. Her father is asked to tape record his experiences which he reluctantly does and are recounted in this book. They include the Russian peasants, cruel guards, surviving unbelievably hard conditions, and overcoming despair.
His Story Is My Story by Elke McKee is 135 pages long, and a total of 34,425 words.
This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 42% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 8 minutes to read His Story Is My Story aloud.
His Story Is My Story is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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