Review: Very Memorable Memoir...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2013
One reviewer said this book read like a tornado and that's a perfect way to describe it. I simply rushed through page after page because I could not stop myself. First page hooks the reader. The young German girl, Ruth, experiences one horror after another until I wondered how she kept from folding and giving in to some of the crazy thoughts that passed through her mind. She was bright, courageous, industrious, caring, and went well beyond the daughter role to help her insane mother escape war torn Bohemia (which then became Communist Czechoslovak) The Czech's hated the Germans and took away their homes, their possessions and treated them like criminals.This story gave war another voice. The voice of an innocent girl who was treated like a prisoner of war for no more reason than she was German.