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Berlin and Betrayal, My New Book in the Works

It’s been a while since I posted about my new Tangled Roots book, Berlin and Betrayal. I’m working hard on the book. It requires a lot of research–reading history books about World War II, reading memoirs, learning more about German cities. Munich, a Bavarian city I’ve visited several times, will play a role in this book. For that part of the book, I can use some of my own experiences to add to the details. I can also use memories from my visits to the Nazi Museum and the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Museum.

Berlin is more difficult, since I haven’t visited. I hope to get some help with that from my author son, Scott Finlay. I believe he’s been to Berlin. Some of the memoirs I’ve read really helped me get a sense of what Berlin was like in the 1940’s.

As I learn more about World War II and the world attitudes leading up to the war, I am seeing lots of similarities between that time and our current time. It’s scary. After learning about the horrific times people lived through during the war, I sincerely hope we aren’t heading into another big war.

I don’t have an estimated publication date for Berlin and Betrayal, but I’m hoping for early next year. Stay tuned!

 

 

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  • Agree completely with you Susan in everything you said!
    Good for you in all your research reading etc! You have so much energy and talent! I am proud to ve your friend! ❤️

  • My own sense of Berlin was that it’s a cool, progressive, avante-garde city, but with lots of layers and countercurrents in the cultural fabric. East and West seem almost fully integrated to me but with perhaps a bit more industrial-edgy aesthetic in the former East German side. It’s been through a lot of changes since the 1940s, so other than some old landmark sites, you’ll have to use much force of imagination to get you back to then. I am just a casual visitor, no expert, but that’s my impression

  • Keep up the good work I can't wait for next book. I am okay with dual timelines. Some are better than others. I was in Europe but not germany. I was in Italy for three weeks. Things looked different to my state.

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