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Heimat

Heimat

Marzell, Paul

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 0578841193
ISBN13: 9780578841199
Publisher: Us ISBN Agency
Published: Sep 9 2021
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four young men stand on a Berlin train platform in 1929, bound for America and a future they cannot yet imagine. They share a common past in the Silesian city of Neisse-a place they call Heimat: more than a home, it is belonging, memory, and identity. In a fleeting moment of courage, they rescue an American diplomat, an act that will echo across decades and continents.

In the United States, their lives diverge in ways none of them could have foreseen. Matthias builds ships that will one day sail against the country of his birth. Feliks fights in the Pacific and later aids the Polish resistance. Josef, trapped in a homeland transformed by war, is conscripted into the German army and marches across Europe's battlefields. Edo, drawn into the pursuit of justice, plays a role in the Nuremberg trials that will judge a shattered regime.

As war engulfs nations and loyalties are tested, each man must confront what Heimat truly means-whether it is a place left behind, a country newly embraced, or something carried deep within the soul.

Spanning the years from the uneasy peace after World War I through the devastation of World War II and its aftermath, Heimat is a sweeping historical novel of friendship, fate, and the enduring search for identity in a world torn apart.

For readers of sweeping WWII epics and deeply human stories of displacement, courage, and belonging.

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