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War Within, The Story of Josef: A young man's wartime journey through cruelty and kindness, hatred and love, despair and hope

War Within, The Story of Josef: A young man's wartime journey through cruelty and kindness, hatred and love, despair and hope

          
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This book is a biographical novel of Josef, a teenage Christian Polish slave laborer, forced to work in Nazi Germany. At the outset of the story, he awakens after his left leg was amputated due to an accident in the factory where he worked in Southern Germany. A talented mechanic, even at his young age, Josef has a natural ability to understand, repair and fabricate machinery. Because of his usefulness, his life is spared, although slave laborers are normally considered expendable, and when injured, are summarily executed. German citizens are prohibited from helping slave laborers. Yet, Willie, a German ambulance driver only a few years older than Josef, saves Josef's life by taking him to the hospital and allowing him to recuperate in his own home. Willie lives with his mother, Sonya, a loyal German. Through the course of his recuperation, Josef fights his hatred of the Germans; Sonya roils with emotion as she comes to see the injured boy as a human being, rather than an enemy, and Willie questions his own motivations for helping the young Pole. Ella, a young German girl who is a cook and maid in a nearby house, befriends Josef. She struggles with her own mother's decision to remove her from school, forcing her to work as a servant. Josef and Ella fall in love and keep their love a secret through the war. When the war ends, they remain in French-occupied Germany, marry, and start a family. As a mixed Polish-German couple they face the ire of the Germans, and, when their eldest son develops tuberculosis, they fear losing him. Through the years, Josef and Willie deepen their friendship, but Ella and Josef decide to emigrate to the US. This story offers a window into the ways some Germans broke the rules to help their declared enemies, and depicts the lives of ordinary people through the last two years of the World War II, Allied occupation, near-starvation, and the agonizing decision to leave Europe and settle in a new land
About the Author: Patricia Walkow is an award-winning author whose work has appeared in three anthologies; Corrales Writing Group 2013 Anthology, Corrales Writing Group 2014 Anthology, and Currents, Corrales Writing Group 2015 Anthology. Her work has appeared in the Glendale [California] News Press, Bethlehem [Pennsylvania] Globe Times, Albuquerque, the Magazine, the Corrales Comment and Corrales MainStreet News. She was editor-in-chief of the Corrales [New Mexico] MainStreet News for three years. Ms. Walkow also co-authored Where People and Projects Meet, a project-management book offering tools and techniques for managing the people side of projects. Her genres include essay, memoir, humor and historical fiction


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781519181015
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 380
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A young man's wartime journey through cruelty and kindness, hatred and love, despair and hope
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1519181019
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 553 gr


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