The love story is between Michael, a Christian American reporter, representing a major New York newspaper and a Jewish girl Sarah, who is a pastry chef and works in her father's bakery in Berlin, Germany. Although the love story is fictitious, I've made every effort to ensure that this is a true historical novel. From the beautiful Excelsior hotel in Berlin to the horrors of the death camp at Auschwitz and the results of the trials at Nuremberg, you can learn all about it. I invite you to join with Sarah and Michael in their fight to survive Hitler's Nazi Germany during the years of 1938 - 1945. I promise you a literary adventure you will never forget. It starts when Michael accidentally attends a secret Jewish prayer service in Berlin's 1938. It goes on to the Berlin Excelsior (Europe's largest, very lavish hotel) where in 1933, when Hitler assumed the Chancellery of Germany, Curt Elschner refused him the use of his hotel. At the Excelsior, Sarah and her father are given refuge from the Nazis. They run the bakery at the hotel. (It really existed.) From Goebbels, Hitler's number one man on down, Sarah managed to charm them all, including her associations with those of the Gestapo. Many of the people she meets are real, some are part of the very good and some the very bad. Many of the characters portrayed, really lived and the experiences are true. It is factual history, only the love story is fiction, but that too could be real. You will meet, Max Schmeling, "Germany and Europe's heavy weight champion and eventual world champion," who at the time of a pogrom, "Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 1938," saved the lives of two Jewish boys. As well, you will meet those responsible for murder and the building of the death camps. I show there were people who helped the Jewish population, as well as German citizens, who were killed by Hitler because they opposed the Nazi party. You will join those Jewish, on the German cruise ship St. Louise, in their thwarted attempt for freedom. Some other experiences in this story will lead you to places, like Heinrich Muller's Gestapo headquarters, Adolph Hitler's Chancellery, associations with real resistance movements, underground operations, death in a boxcar ride to Auschwitz and the Auschwitz experience as it really happened, too the Soviet capture and rape of Berlin, the Nuremberg trials and their outcome. All written with feelings of Love, Hate, and Compassion. Please know the doing of this work at times caused me much distress. There were times when writing I cried, but also times of happiness and laughter.
I am born with love. I am born pure of mind. I am born a human being.This is the same beginning for us all. If so, where does all the hate and prejudices come from? As God is a synonym for love and tolerance, the Devil is the synonym for hate, greed and intolerance.So, Hate Is The EnemyThe lesson here is an easy one: fight poverty, prejudice, hate, and ignorance; not each other. The reward for the victor is immeasurable.This book could be considered a true book of history. The primary characters depicted, and the romance indicated in the following story are fictitious. The settings and history I portray are to the best of my knowledge true. In my last novel, Sarah and Michael were married by the United States Chief Justice at the Palace of Justice, in Nuremberg Germany. At the close of the trials involving WW II war criminals, Michael, a Christian American citizen and reporter for a New York newspaper, returned to New York with his Jewish wife, Sarah, and three-year-old daughter, Michelle. The New York Daily Mirror, where Michael had been employed since 1937 closed. He is invited to join the news division of a major television network. In May of 1972, he is posted in Israel.This is the story about their youngest daughter, Maggie. She falls in love with a Palestinian terrorist, Hisham, and joins a terrorist cell. Follow Maggie in romance and espionage and learn the amazing history about a nation, united in democracy, surrounded by countries swearing to, I Quote "soak the land upon which they lived with their blood". Yes, not just drive them and their democracy out but to kill as many of them as possible. Since it is my opinion that reading a novel should not only be entertaining, but a source of education, as well as morality, I endeavor to accomplish this in my writings. If after you read this book, you come away with knowledge and moral uplifting, then these efforts have been accomplished.
Freedom's DreamAmerica's First Woman PresidentThis novel depicts the history and background of America's First woman President. It covers Four generations, involving WW II, *Mig Alley in North Korea, undercover work, prostitution in Europe, terrorism in Lebanon, about Israel, and eventually the White House.The story starts with Ivan, a Russian fighter pilot stationed with the allied armed forces in Great Britain during World War II., and ends with Kate, becoming America's first Woman President.At the end of WW II, Ivan returns to Russia, where he is trained to fly the new Mig jet-propelled fighter planes. Soon after, he is sent to North Korea. Here, his job was to engage American pilots in combat. They called the area of engagement Mig Alley. He is ordered to engage and destroy American aircraft. This is true. The world did not know this at that time. All thought the planes were manned by North Korean pilots, but it wasn't until many years later that the truth became known. Since having lived in a democratic society during World War II, it is Ivan's dream to defect from his communist country. Not just for himself, but for the family he loved, for his wife Katya, who carries their unborn child and for his son Gregor. He wishes the future for his family to be in America. With his pregnant wife and son at home, he needs to find a way to get them all with him. He has a plan. Will it work? It must.
When you read the thoughts of my innermost being; you think them poetic; then I am a poet. I can find no end to the depths of my feelings. As my soul sinks into profundity, I take up the pen; the ink runs upon the paper. It is my blood. After spending the years between 1989 and 2007 traveling, camping, writing and taking pictures in our National Parks, I settled down in South Florida. It was then I started writing. These next are some of my work. Novels: There's No Hate in Paradise, Dark Times of Love &War, and Katie, America's First Woman President. Educational: The Computer for Grandma & Grandpa. Documentary: The Dating Race in Cyberspace. Children's Books: Daisy Duck Teaches School, Oakie, The Little Oak Tree That Didn't Die, Do You Know Us, and The Turtle That Fell from The Sky. Poetry: Profundity + American Wonderlands Video: American Wonderlands. 45-minutes. Being born in 1928, I am in my 90th year. Except for my difficulties with Macular Degeneration, I am still enjoying robust health and continuing to be both creative and productive. I am also lucky in having a wonderful, caring, loving partner at my side. Her name is Joyce
