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Hitler and Mars Bars <hitlermarsbars>

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	Growing up in a foreign land	497 dagen geleden
	This is an endearing story. Set in post war Europe, it charts the Red Cross's Operation Shamrock which saw hundreds of German children transported from their war-torn home country to the safety and security of Ireland. The focus of Dianne Ascroft's book is Erich and his brother Hans and stretches across a 10-year period of the boys' life in Ireland as part of Operation Shamrock......Ascroft is superb in telling the story from Erich's point of view. It's a poignant and nostalgic look at a bygone and more innocent age. The reader will feel much sympathy for the two German lads as they are split from each other and go about living their lives in a foreign land. The story is both vivid and moving and even though Erich is only a child, the reader will find admiration for how the human spirit can overcome all manner of hardship and misery and still retain hopes and dreams. Darryl Armitage, News Letter (Belfast), 21 June 2008
	geplaatst door Dianne Ascroft