Kerstin Lieff,Margarete Dos
A ,New York Times, Bestseller,When Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II, she and her younger brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. Like countless citizens under Hitlerâ€™s regime, Margarete struggled to understand what was happening to her country. Later, as a nurse for the German Red Cross, she treated countless young soldiersâ€”recruited in the eleventh hour to fight a losing battleâ€”they would die before her eyes as Allied bombs racked her beloved city. Yet, her deep humanity, intelligence, and passion for lifeâ€”which sparkles in every sentence of her memoirâ€”carried Margarete through to warâ€™s end. But just when she thought the worst was over, and she and her mother were on a train headed to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russiaâ€¦,This powerful account draws back the curtain on a piece of history that has been largely overlookedâ€”the nightmare that millions of German civilians suffered, simply because they were German. That Margarete survived to tell her tale so vividly and courageously is a gift to us all.
Nonfiction,History,War,World War II,Autobiography,Memoir,Cultural,Germany,World War II,Holocaust,Biography,Historical,War,Young Adult,Coming Of Age
Letters From Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship