![]() With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future. But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. For readers of Warlight and The Invisible Bridge, an intimate, harrowing story about a family of German citizens during World War II. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next. ![]() In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest: their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontlines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a Nurnberg school for the Hitler Youth. Germany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. ![]() 'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didn't want' The Times They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. The Vanishing Sky is a World War II novel as seen through a German lens, a story of the irreparable damage of war on the home front, and one familys participation-involuntary, unseen, or. ![]()
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