Spencer Morgan And Dieter Hedrick Are On Opposite Sides Of The Battle And Fighting For The Same Thing. At age fifteen, Dieter’s blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youngsters into the German army. Dieter’s determined to show his allegiance and bravery all costs. Spence, just sixteen, drops out of his Utah senior high school to begin training like a paratrooper. He’s seen how boys who weren’t much in high school can come home heroes, and Spence really wants to persuade his relatives and buddies that he really can end up being something. Their worst dread was that the war would end too early — that they wouldn’t obtain the chance to verify themselves. But when they finally see the action they were hoping for, it’s like nothing at all they could have ever imagined.