An Enemy Like me: A German-American Family's Joys and Sufferings During Wwii (in English)
Synopsis "An Enemy Like me: A German-American Family's Joys and Sufferings During Wwii (in English)"
The Literary Titan Silver AwardThe 2022 CIBAs HEMINGWAY - Long List What Would You Do for Love?An Enemy Like Me, written by award-winning author Teri M Brown, is a powerful novel of love, war, and the complexities of family and identity.How does a man show his love - for country, for heritage, for family - during a war that sets the three at odds? What sets in motion the necessity to choose one over the other? How will this choice change everything and everyone he loves?Jacob Miller, a first-generation American, grew up in New Berlin, a small German immigrant town in Ohio where he endured the Great Depression, met his wife, and started a family. Though his early years were not easy, Jacob believes he is headed toward his 'happily ever after' until a friend is sent to an internment camp for enemy combatants, and the war lands resolutely on his doorstep.In An Enemy Like Me, Teri M Brown uses the backdrop of World War II to show the angst experienced by Jacob, his wife, and his four-year-old son as he left for and fought in a war he did not create. She explores the concepts of xenophobia, intrafamily dynamics, and the recognition that war is not won and lost by nations, but by ordinary men and women and the families who support them.If you are a fan of historical fiction with a love for heartfelt, introspective war stories, then you'll enjoy An Enemy Like Me by award-winning author Teri M Brown. This emotional saga explores war and its impacts in unique ways that few military fiction novels do.This is definitely a novel that deserves to be on a historical fiction lovers' TBR list! Buy the novel today to discover what you would do for love.
