SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND. A TRUE COMING-OF-AGE LOVE STORY SET IN WWII GERMANY - Tecno-Libro

Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWii, author Annette Oppenlander's SURViViNG THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the children's war. SURViViNG .THE FATHERLAND tells the true and heart-wrenching stories of Lilly and GA¼nter 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, seven-year-old 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 GA¼nter also looses his father to the draft and quickly takes charge of