Aurora : a Wartime Love Story - Softcover

Kramer, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 094167861X ISBN 13: 9780941678612

Publisher: Ogden Pub Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The saga of Aurora and Alfreds unfolds as the Russians invade peaceful Latvia at the dawn of World War II. This story is based on the life of a courageous woman who struggles to overcome the wartime savagery that shatters the young couple's dreams. Follow Aurora as she loses Alfreds and flees the relentless Russian army only to find hunger, suffering and rejection in the German and Allied refugee camps. Her escape to England is short-lived. Will America open its arms? Will Alfreds survive Siberia to se their daughter? Will he escape the Iron Curtain to touch Aurora's hand again?

About this title

About the Author:

AURORA is Marie Kramer's first novel published by Ogden Publications, Inc.

Raised on a Nebraska ranch, Marie's first self-published writings were to record the old stories from her rancher father and other area "old-timers.: She taught school for many years in the Stuart, NE area.

Review:

Book Brief by Jean Teller Aurora by Marie Kramer

She turned 17 that fateful summer. In 1940, Aurora's entire life changed as Russia went on the offensive and invaded her Latvia.

It was a summer of turmoil and change, it was also a summer of love. Aurora and Alfreds find each other in the midst of tradgedy, and pledge their unending love. But is it possible for such love to endure a world war?

In AURORA, Marie Kramer's novelization of Aurora's true story, we learn of the strength of love, the depth of pain and the agony of separation. We follow Aurora as she winds her way through the ever-changing landscape of war as first Russian then German troops invade her homeland.

As Aurora soon learns, the brutality of the Communists is a thing to fear and even the Nazis look like saviors to a country teetering on the brink of destruction. Her love strong and her need for Alfreds clear, Aurora struggles to maintain her tenuous link to her husband and to her beloved homeland.

Her struggles include the birth of two children, her mother's illness and eventual immigration to England, and the small family's fight to survive in a country ripped apart at the seams by war, starvation and unending uncertainty.

While the tale of Aurora and Alfreds includes long separations and unending strife, the lovers continue to grow as individuals and as a couple, until the last page of this wartime love story. -- Publisher Comments

About this edition

• Publisher: Ogden Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 094167861X
• ISBN 13: 9780941678612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 185