With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future. A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didnt want The Times Theyve wrecked the world, these men, and still theyre not done. But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. Annette Binder (Author) 55 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.71 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 36.99 7 New from 36.99 Paperback 19. The Vanishing Sky is fully controlled storytelling that avoids clich, even as its winter turns into spring, even as it recounts the final days of a war still being fought by those who barely understand why.' - Steven Whitton, The Anniston Star 'Heartwarming and exciting. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next. The Vanishing Sky Paperback 2 July 2020 by L. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest: their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontlines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a Nurnberg school for the Hitler Youth. Germany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didn't want' The Times A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II, and L.

The Vanishing Sky by L. Annette Binder