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Cover of Letters From Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship

Letters From Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship

✍ Scribed by Dos, Margarete; Lieff, Kerstin

Book ID
107696535
Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
5 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780762777983

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✦ Synopsis

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 Hitler’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 soldiers—recruited in the eleventh hour to fight a losing battle—they would die before her eyes as Allied bombs racked her beloved city. Yet, her deep humanity, intelligence, and passion for life—which sparkles in every sentence of her memoir—carried Margarete through to war’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 Russia…

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