Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany - Softcover

Garner, Eleanor Ramrath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561452963 ISBN 13: 9781561452965

Publisher: Peachtree, 2003

Synopsis

This dramatic autobiography of Eleanor Ramrath Garner reveals the daily struggles of growing up as a young American caught in World War II Berlin.
During the Great Depression, when she is nine, Eleanor’s family moves from her beloved America to Germany, where her father has been offered a good job. But war breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlantic, and they cannot return to the United States.
Eleanor tries to maintain her American identity as she feels herself pulled into the turbulent life roiling around her. She fervently hopes for an Allied victory, yet for years she must try to survive the Allied bombs shattering her neighborhood. Her family faces separations, bombings, hunger, the final fierce battle for Berlin, the Russian invasion, and the terrors of Soviet occupancy.
This compelling story immerses readers in the first-hand account of surviving World War II as a civilian. It’s a story of trying to maintain stability, hope, and identity in a world of terror and contrasts, and it puts a very human face on the horrors of war, helping readers understand that each casualty of war is a person, not a number.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A unique and delightful alphabet book which follows its host, Shadow, through a maze of boxes filled with enchantingly rendered drawings.

About the Author:

Eleanor Ramrath Garner attended Boston University, and pursued a career as a permissions editor for textbook publishers for many years. In addition to being a published non-fiction writer, Garner is an exhibited artist. She lives in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachtree
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1561452963
• ISBN 13: 9781561452965
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224