{"product_id":"the-secret-she-carried-a-perilous-odyssey-through-the-time-of-hitler-9780964234949","title":"The Secret She Carried: A Perilous Odyssey Through the Time of Hitler","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this history-infused narrative, overwhelming events sweep up young Maria Hajek and her beleaguered ethnic German village, climaxing in the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany. As Adolf Hitler's motorcade passes Maria's home in 1938, she believes her life will improve under the new political arrangement that cleaved her homeland from oppressive Czechoslovakia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHowever, the Nazis soon launch World War II and deepen the misery. Before long nearly every working age man under 50 is in uniform, leaving Maria and the other women to work the farms, cope with shortages, and attend ever more soldier funerals. In time the plight of the village soldiers, as described by men Maria knew, grows desperate as they fight on the collapsing Eastern Front and at Normandy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the war's end, Maria can't imagine the worst is yet to come. She finds peace brings only occupation and savage treatment at the hands of the Red Army and Czech partisans. The violence leaves Maria with a lifelong secret and culminates in a traumatic expulsion to a broken Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erich Eipert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Turnbuckle Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780964234949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEipert, Erich:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Erich Eipert grew up in Iowa, but the place he spent his first five years stayed with him. Broken postwar Germany was his first home because circumstances of geography and history had situated his parents on the losing side of World War II. Following his own encounter with war in Vietnam, Erich recognized how compelling his parents' stories were. This nonfiction narrative, the culmination of research in both the United States and Europe over four decades, was based on interviews with individuals who directly experienced the war as well as on visits to libraries and archives, government offices, museums, and historical sites. Erich, who has a degree in print journalism and a PhD in immunology, is continuing to collect information for the follow-up book detailing a father's experiences through the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turnbuckle Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40275872710771,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f38b455b-7ce5-4cbc-b002-7ec72f36d8cb.jpg?v=1657894997","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-secret-she-carried-a-perilous-odyssey-through-the-time-of-hitler-9780964234949","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}