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The Scent of a Storm: A Gripping WWII Novel about Love, Courage and Survival - Inspired by True Events (Moving Love Stories of WWII Germany)

Annette Oppenlander
4.47/5 (51 ratings)
A heart-wrenching love story for the ages – inspired by true events

Eastern Prussia, 1944:
Young lovers Annie and Werner are separated from each other when he is drafted into Hitler’s Volkssturm. While the SS orders Werner to remove the dead bodies of frozen refugees from Königsberg’s streets, Annie discovers she is pregnant. As she urgently awaits Werner’s return, rumors of the advancing Red Army mount and with it, alarming reports of what they do to women. Running for their lives, Annie and her mother embark on a life-threatening journey west. Even before they can escape by boat, Annie makes a horrifying mistake, one that will haunt her forever. Werner, arrested and imprisoned in a Russian gulag, manages to escape after four months of cruelty and returns home. But his and Annie’s farms lie abandoned—the love of his life and his own family have vanished…

East Berlin, 1989: On the evening of November 9, when the borders between East and West Berlin open for the first time in nearly thirty years—a day which ultimately heralds Germany’s reunification—Annie watches a correspondent on West TV who reminds her of her childhood sweetheart Werner, the man she has thought dead for 45 years. Together with her daughter Emma, Annie sets out on a search...
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Pages:
338 pages
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eng
ISBN10:
3948100306
ISBN13:
9783948100308
kindle Asin:
B09FY7X6M1

The Scent of a Storm: A Gripping WWII Novel about Love, Courage and Survival - Inspired by True Events (Moving Love Stories of WWII Germany)

Annette Oppenlander
4.47/5 (51 ratings)
A heart-wrenching love story for the ages – inspired by true events

Eastern Prussia, 1944:
Young lovers Annie and Werner are separated from each other when he is drafted into Hitler’s Volkssturm. While the SS orders Werner to remove the dead bodies of frozen refugees from Königsberg’s streets, Annie discovers she is pregnant. As she urgently awaits Werner’s return, rumors of the advancing Red Army mount and with it, alarming reports of what they do to women. Running for their lives, Annie and her mother embark on a life-threatening journey west. Even before they can escape by boat, Annie makes a horrifying mistake, one that will haunt her forever. Werner, arrested and imprisoned in a Russian gulag, manages to escape after four months of cruelty and returns home. But his and Annie’s farms lie abandoned—the love of his life and his own family have vanished…

East Berlin, 1989: On the evening of November 9, when the borders between East and West Berlin open for the first time in nearly thirty years—a day which ultimately heralds Germany’s reunification—Annie watches a correspondent on West TV who reminds her of her childhood sweetheart Werner, the man she has thought dead for 45 years. Together with her daughter Emma, Annie sets out on a search...
Format:
Pages:
338 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
3948100306
ISBN13:
9783948100308
kindle Asin:
B09FY7X6M1