The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner PDF Download

March 25, 2019 Fiction, Novels

Download The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner PDF free. “The Last Year of the War” is a deeply affecting and beautifully written historical fiction story of a family of German immigrants interned during WWII.

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“The Last Year of the War” is a beautiful story of friendship, war, lost and finding wings to fly free. Susan Meissner is the author of this book. The Last Year of the War is an amazing historical fiction book. It is the perfect WWII story, with the telling of life in internment camps, life in Germany during the war, and how life after the war was over was still affected by what happened during the war. It is powerful, it is emotional, and it is an incredible journey. This heart-wrenching new novel by Susan Meissner tells of the story of two American born teenage girls, who along with their families have forced into Crystal City a WWI internment camp in Texas.

Elise Sontag from Davenport, Iowa is the daughter of German nationals, while Mariko Inoue’s parents are from Japan though she was born and raised in Los Angeles. Trying to survive the brutal Texan heat and the harsh realities of being wrenched from the lives and forced into confinement, the two girls form a close bond despite their different backgrounds. Both families are eventually repatriated, Elise to Germany and Mariko to Japan, despite the war still raging around the world. The novel than turns to Elisa’s life in a country she has never known, her return to American with the aid of a GI stationed in Germany and her efforts to build a new life for herself in a country that had turned their back to her.