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Cargando... Surviving the Fatherland: A True Coming of Age Love Story Set in WWII Germanypor Annette Oppenlander
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Definitely 5 stars. I can see why this book is so loved. Very engrossing, deeply moving and character you will not forget. Everyone that loves a well researched historical will want this one. ( ) Great book this, about the German side of the war and how it affected ordinary people. They suffered quite badly under Hitler who thought nothing of the civilian population but just about beating the enemy. We hear about Lilli and her cold uncaring mother and how her mother's boyfriends affected Lilli, after her father left, and we also hear about Gunter a young man just coming to manhood and the one the family look to to keep them going. Times were tough for both families but they survive to be joined together in a love story, that is sweet and poignant until things go awry. This is a true story about real people, who went through just as hard times, if not harder than we the victors did. I really enjoyed it sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Surviving the Fatherland tells the true stories of Lilly and Günter struggling with the terror-filled reality of life in the Third Reich, each embarking on their own dangerous path toward survival, freedom, and ultimately each other. Based on the author's own family and anchored in historical facts, this story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the strength of war children. When her father goes off to war, Lilly is left with an unkind mother who favors her brother and chooses to ignore the lecherous pedophile next door. A few blocks away, twelve-year-old Günter also loses his father to the draft and quickly takes charge of supplementing his family's ever-dwindling rations by any means necessary. As the war escalates and bombs begin to rain, Lilly and Günter's lives spiral out of control. On a quest for firewood, Lilly encounters a dying soldier and steals her father's last suit to help the man escape. Barely sixteen, Günter ignores his draft call and embarks as a fugitive on a harrowing 47-day ordeal--always just one step away from execution. When at last the war ends, Günter grapples with his brother's severe PTSD and the fact that none of his classmates survived. Welcoming denazification, Lilly takes a desperate step to rid herself once and for all of her disgusting neighbor's grip. When Lilly and Günter meet in 1949, their love affair is like any other. Or so it seems. But old wounds and secrets have a way of rising to the surfac No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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