- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Historical / World War II
- Language:English
- Pages:436
- Paperback ISBN:9798350946451
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Beth Warren comes to Germany in 1952, a young Air Force wife, open to Germany, to its people, to its history. She begins to unravel the town's recent past as she meets more and more Germans, unaware that she is, in the process, unraveling her own life, her own story.
Places and people are not always what they seem. Behind the stoic faces of the Germans, the cobblestoned Platz, the medieval aura, lurks shocking history: Hitler, the Holocaust, prison camps, death marches. Beth struggles to reconcile what she sees and what she discovers. It is certain that living in Germany, in Landsberg, changes her. Isn't that the purpose of travel, to expand one's horizons, to grow? How much growth is enough?
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Germany in 1952, recovering from a devastating war, attempting to put the pieces back together again, literally and figuratively, must endure yet one more prying eye, one more inquisitive 'tourist.' Beth Warren, an unconventional military wife, lands right in the middle of one of the three "Hitler towns," but the other two have been bombed to rubble. Only Landsberg, in picturesque Bavaria, in southern Germany, is still intact, still looks like a fairy-tale town, cobblestones and all. But Beth does not settle for surface appearances. She is soon peeling back the protective layer of medieval charm to the sometimes unsavory truths hidden beneath the fairy-tale facade. The town, the war, the U.S. military, her own marriage - nothing escapes her inquisitive nature.
Beth's quest, to find the truth, will discomfit the U.S. Air Force, introduce the reader to survivors and perpetrators, heroes and haters, and endanger her own fledgling marriage.
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