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Unexpectedly finding her German father’s World War II memoirs in an old suitcase transports author Helga Warren to romantic Paris in wartime, surrender from inside a German bunker on the beaches of Normandy, behind the barbed wire of a prisoner of war camp in Aliceville, Alabama, and on to the start of a new life in America. The author discovers a man full of enthusiasm and the fervor of youth—and a marvelous writer—revealing unseen sides of the father she thought she knew. A whole new world opens up, all because of a sheaf of tattered papers in the bottom of what can only be called an enchanted suitcase.
One of the few eyewitness accounts of the little-known history of German prisoners of war in America during World War II, Karlheinz Stoess’s story gives us a glimpse into the life of what was known as a Scheuerfrau or “scrubwoman” of the Wehrmacht—an ordinary German soldier at the crossroads of history.
- Formato
- Cartaceo
- Generi
- Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction, Nonfiction
- Offerto da
- HelgaWarren (Autore)
- Pubblicato da
- Black Rose Writing
- Pacchetto
- Dicembre 2022 Inizia il: 2022-12-01Termina il: 2022-12-27
- In vendita
- 2023-01-05
- Paesi
- USA Only
- Collegamenti
- Informazioni sul libro
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- 5 recensiti
Enjoy reading about my father, an ordinary German soldier during World War II and a prisoner of war in Aliceville Alabama!
Best wishes,
Helga Warren