Jo Manno Remark: 3 books

Samuel West talks about his life as an Afro-American in New York at the 30s and the beginning of the war. Werner Höfken talks from his Nazi Germany in Cologne. Both their youths join the training as soldiers and the war effort in foreign countries. In the winter of 1944 their fateful meeting as mortal...

A positive tuned novel of a desertion out of the hell of the Battle of the Bulge in the winter 1944, where the course of the war stays in strong contrast to the tender love story that develops between the German deserter and the pretty Belgian Monique. The book is the rejection of all forms of violence,...

Although written as a novel the events of the Ardennes offensive have been a defining characteristic for the author’s life. He has succeeded in communicating to the reader an anti-war story which has grown out of his own experiences. The story does not remain in the simple reproduction of inhuman...