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***Winner 2017 'National Indie Excellence Award'*** ***An IWIC 'Hall of Fame Novel'*** "This book must join the rates of the basic survivor reports of WWII such as Diary of Anne Frank and Man's Search for Meaning. It is truly that amazing!" InD'tale Publication Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and place contrary to the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's Surviving the Fatherland is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illuminates an intimate part of background hardly ever seen: the children's warfare. Surviving the Fatherland says the real and heart-wrenching reports of Lilly and Günter fighting the terror-filled truth of life in the 3rd Reich, each embarking on their own dangerous journey toward survival, liberty, and ultimately the other person. Based on the author's own family and anchored in historical facts, this tale celebrates the resilience of the individual spirit and the effectiveness of war children. When her daddy will go off to warfare, seven-year-old Lilly is left with an unkind mom who favors her brother and chooses to ignore the lecherous pedophile nearby. A number of blocks away, twelve-year-old Günter also looses his daddy to the draft and quickly will take demand of supplementing his family's ever-dwindling rations at all necessary. As the warfare escalates and bombs begin to weather, Lilly and Günter's lives spiral uncontrollable. Each day is a struggle for survival. On a search for firewood, Lilly encounters a dying soldier and steals her father's last suit to help the man escape. Hardly sixteen, Günter ignores his draft call and embarks as a fugitive over a harrowing 47-day ordeal--always just one step from execution. When finally the warfare ends, Günter grapples with his brother's severe PTSD and the fact that none of them of his classmates survived. Welcoming denazification, Lilly takes a desperate step to clear herself forever of her disgusting neighbor's hold. When Lilly and Günter meet in 1949, their love affair is like any. Or so it seems. But old wounds and secrets have a way of increasing to the surface once more.
