Daughter of the Enemy

A child is born in a time of war and, when she is five years old, her father, a soldier in the German Wehrmacht, is killed in battle. Not until that child is grown will she understand the full horror of her country's role in that war. Then begins a long and painful reckoning, a quest for identity and a way to remember a father beloved but nevertheless on the wrong side of history. Marie Pal-Brown's moving and beautifully written memoir faces, without flinching, the complexity of that reckoning. Daughter of the Enemy is both a personal and social history--it recounts how a ravaged people survived the hardships of WWII and postwar Germany and succumbed to the silence surrounding the Holocaust. It weaves, from the frayed strands of memory, a fully human accounting of coming to terms with hard truths, finally creating a tender memorial to the father lost in war. This is a journey, and the journey is a story that has been waiting to be told.

Author: Marie Pal-Brown
Publisher: Lagoon House Press, LLC
Published: 07/15/2018
Pages: 406
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780997260953
ISBN10: 0997260955
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- History | Europe | Germany

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