A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany
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The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimee, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron, a penniless exile of the Russian revolution. They marry. But the harsh reality of post World War I Germany is inescapable: a bleak economy and the rise of Hitler quash Heinrich s diplomatic ambitions, and their struggling family farm north of Berlin drains Aimee s modest fortune. In 1941, Heinrich volunteers for the Russian front and is killed by a sniper. Widowed, living in a country soon at war with her own, Aimee must fend for herself. With home and family in jeopardy, she and her six young children flee the advancing Russian army in an epic journey, back to the country she thought she d left behind. A World Elsewhere is a stirring narrative of two hostages to history and a mother s courageous fight to save her family."
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0670015830
ISBN13:9780670015832
Release Date:September 2014
Publisher:Viking
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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