A Triumph of a Book, a Triumph of a Life
Inge Stanneck Gross has produced a powerful and arresting account of life in Germany during and following World War II. She's captured a time and a place with great heart, rich texture and compelling characters. The reader gets a taste of what it must have been like to live through those terrifying nights of thunder during the war and those frigid winter nights with no windows afterward. Her family's escape from the East German countryside past Soviet lines into Berlin, the return of her father from Soviet imprisonment, the traumas of everyday life in postwar Germany, the drama of the Berlin Blockade and the Allied Airlift, and finally her momentous move to America -- it's all an incredible journey. Don't wait for the movie. Put this at the top of your reading list.
A grateful reader, Washington D.C.