A sweeping, intense and suspenseful romantic family saga, filled with action. Share the adventures, and love, of Peter and Bess as they brave not only Nazi oppression and the horrors of Hitler's prisons and concentration camps, but the prejudice within their own Christian and Jewish religions. From the 1912 Olympics, the battlefields of German East Africa, the boxing rings of Nazi Germany to Hitler's Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass in 1939, follow the many "stories within a story" in this first book of the Mein Stern trilogy. A rewarding read for more accomplished readers who demand as much of themselves, as they do of the author.