Annemarie The Love Story of a German Girl in the First World War |
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| Author:
| Schmidt Vollenbroich, Annemarie |
| Translator:
| Schwendiman, John |
| Selected by:
| Walters, Dean |
| ISBN: | 978-1-387-57704-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2022 |
| Publisher: | Lulu Press, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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The publication of this book, which was originally written in German, was prohibited by the Nazi Party in Germany. A young missionary serving in Germany, found and translated the love story into English and sought for a publisher in the United States. Despite the translator's letters to dozens of publishing houses, no English press would publish the book, so the English manuscript pages lay in a box in the United States for decades, nearly destroyed by a basement flood. The rescued...
More DescriptionThe publication of this book, which was originally written in German, was prohibited by the Nazi Party in Germany. A young missionary serving in Germany, found and translated the love story into English and sought for a publisher in the United States. Despite the translator's letters to dozens of publishing houses, no English press would publish the book, so the English manuscript pages lay in a box in the United States for decades, nearly destroyed by a basement flood. The rescued document now informs and charms readers more than 100 years after the historical events of the First World War mainly set in occupied France.