The Enchanted Suitcase
A Window Onto My German Father's World War II Life
by Helga Warren
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Pub Date 5 Jan 2023 | Archive Date 30 Jan 2023
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Description
Unexpectedly finding her German father's World War II memoirs in an old suitcase, transports author Helga Warren to romantic Paris in wartime, surrender from inside a German bunker on the beaches of Normandy, behind the barbed wire of a prisoner of war camp in Aliceville, Alabama and on to the start of a new life in America.
The author discovers a man full of enthusiasm and the fervor of youth—and a marvelous writer—revealing unseen sides of the father she thought she knew. A whole new world opens up, all because of a sheaf of tattered papers in the bottom of what can only be called an enchanted suitcase.
One of the few eyewitness accounts of the little-known history of German prisoners of war in America during World War II, Karlheinz Stoess's story gives us a glimpse into the life of what was known as a "Scheuerfrau" or "scrubwoman" of the Wehrmacht—an ordinary German soldier at the crossroads of history.
A Note From the Publisher
public school German Immersion teacher. She lives in the Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital with her
husband.
The daughter of two German parents, she grew up in a German-speaking household and had the good
fortune of spending her teenage years in Paris, which led to lifelong involvement with languages.
Her grandchildren are the light of her life.
She would never have written a book if it weren't for that old suitcase.
Advance Praise
"Helga Warren invites readers along as she explores the contents of a suitcase, untouched for years, and pulls together a fascinating World War II perspective that ranges from German combat to occupied Paris and then to a German POW camp in tiny Aliceville, Alabama. Definitely an enchanting read." -Ruth Beaumont Cook, author of Guests Behind the Barbed Wire, Magic in Stone, and North Across the River
"A riveting tale of a resilient man who never stopped learning and went on to make a productive and successful life for himself and his family in the American he came to love under the democracy he always revered." -Ellen Feldman, author of Paris Never Leaves You and Return to Berlin
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781685130954 |
| PRICE | US$5.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 251 |
