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A Woman With No Country
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 25 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ingrid Strayer has always lived between worlds. Born in Germany but raised in the United States, she returned to Munich in 1940 as a Rückwanderer - one of the returned Germans the Reich claimed as its own. But when the war turns brutal and the city she once called home becomes a place of suspicion and fear, Ingrid discovers that having two homelands can mean belonging to neither.
When she is arrested for harboring an escaped American POW, Ingrid is dragged into a detention center where loyalty is measured in blood and silence. Her sister Gerta is threatened, her past is weaponized against her, and her identity as a Rückwanderer becomes both a curse and a lifeline. Yet even as the walls close in, Ingrid refuses to betray the man she loves - or the country she can no longer claim.
From the ruins of Munich to the quiet dignity of Texas, A Woman with No Country follows two sisters through the final days of the World War II and into the uncertain peace that follows. It is a story of displacement, moral courage, and the fragile hope of finding a place to belong when history has taken everything.
Mark McCord delivers his most emotionally layered novel yet - a sweeping, intimate portrait of identity, survival, and the quiet heroism of women caught between nations. Perfect for readers of The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, and The Alice Network, this is historical fiction at its most human and unforgettable.
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