Escape fiction and inescapable history
World War narrative history
Circumstances of geography and history placed the author’s parents on the losing side in World War II. Their grueling experiences left each holding a lifelong personal secret and a story begging to be told. The tellings, coalesced from an accumulation of interviews, memoirs, on-site research, and historical context, are narratives that weave their way through the chronology of Hitler’s Third Reich and some of Stalin’s postwar reign of terror. These sagas of ordinary people attempting to cope in an extraordinarily dangerous time recount a compelling story and provide a fresh perspective of life on the enemy side.
In The Secret She Carried: A Perilous Odyssey Through the Time of Hitler, a young woman and her tiny Sudetenland German community grapple with survival in the period encompassing the world wars but find the apocalyptic peace that follows the Nazi defeat even more ruinous.
A companion volume will relate the story of the author’s father, a man who by guile and luck survived the Eastern Front, the Allied onslaught on Germany, and American bombs when very few others in his German Panzergrenadier division did. Like his wife-to-be, he emerged from the war bearing a secret.
Fiction
Books for young or not-so-young adults who relish adventure, youthful heroes, wry humor, a real plot, and a pinch of romance.paperbacks or ebooks through bookstores, Amazon or other outlets.
Guy Going Under. Guy just wanted to win a girl a little beyond his reach. He didn’t plan to get himself, and a too-smart girl he couldn’t stand, trapped in a cave with a gruesome historical secret. Available as paperback or ebook at Amazon, bookstores, or many other outlets.
Butterfly Powder and the Mountains of Iowa. In 1960s rural Iowa, meet underachiever and improbable hero Gilbert Perles, the train he comes to call his own, an alluring girl named Alice, and the rival he would later re-encounter in a new and unexpected setting—war-torn Vietnam. Available as paperback or ebook at Amazon, bookstores or many other outlets.