Victory by Yabo Yablonsky

Started: 3/20/06
Finished: 3/21/06
Pages: 164
Genre: fiction
Grade: C-
Reason for reading: grabbed it off the TBR pile (received from a bookbox)
Blurb (from back cover): "The year was 1943. Many of them had been POWs in Gensdorf Prison since 1940, playing games to stay sane as the war dragged on...and on. Their soccer game was never-ending. By now the score ran into thousands. But who could bother to keep on counting?
"Until suddenly their chance came. They were ordered to play against a team of Nazis in an international match. The goal of the Germans-propaganda. The goal of the POWs-freedom!"
Opinion: Based on the movie of the same name that Yabo Yablonsky wrote the screenplay for. The book did emphasis that the prisoners had been playing for years and did not give any great detail to the game. I haven't seen the movie nor am I going to. Not worth reading unless you're a big fan of soccer or WWII.