Luise Urban

A Dangerous Game (eBook, ePUB)

Growing Up East of the Oder Under the Nazis and Soviets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Luise Urban was born into a world about to be turned upside down. Her family lived east of the river Oder, and as the Third Reich crumbled and the Soviet Red Army advanced, she was one of 15 million Germans trapped in a war zone during the terrible winter of 1945. Weakened by starvation and forced to flee their home, it was only the bravery and ingenuity of Luise's mother that saved the family from total destruction. In East of the Oder, Luise relives that harrowing time, written in memory of her mother, to whom she owes her life. It is the story of a child, but it is not a story for children. 'I had a little boy with me about six years old, he was the son of refugees. We were bombarding a tree with snowballs. It was fun. A Russian soldier appeared in the driveway and took pot shots at us. Little Richard fell down in the snow, dead. I walked back into the house and said, "They have shot little Richard".'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752494234
• Artikelnr.: 39083658

Autorenporträt

LUISE URBAN was born in Germany in October 1933, her harrowing childhood forming the subject of this book. She moved to England in 1956 and became a state-registered nurse, and she took an Open University degree in Physics and Astronomy. She lives in Gwynedd, Wales.