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A Memoir: From Reichstag Fire to Berlin Blockade

by Anna Barber

156 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1279; ISBN 1-4120-6368-x; US$18.50, C$21.95, EUR15.50, £11.00

A memoir about the effect of political unrest on a family living in Germany during the Hitler Era. Their encounter with a Stormtrooper results in a series of ill-fated events.

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About the Book

Barber's personal and family memoir set in and beyond Berlin in the period 1933-1948, narrates how Germany's unsettling political events before, during, and after the Second World War affected the lives of family and friends, and shaped her own course of action.

While developing the central point of her memoir, the search for an answer to her mother's mysterious illness and sudden death during the first year of war, her focus was on reflection rather than on a mere telling of what she witnessed. However, she didn't dwell long on tragic personal experiences without portraying the humorous side of her adolescent naiveté and foolishness, in order to show how youngsters amid the hardship of war move through similar stages of juvenile development as those growing up in less troubling times.

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About the Author

Anna Barber was born in Germany in 1927, and spent her childhood in Berlin. During the war time bombing in 1943, she was evacuated to a small community in the Bavarian Alps, but returned to her family in Berlin at the onset of the Cold War. In 1948, while the Russian Blockade of Berlin was in progress, Barber was flown to Ireland as part of an Allied Air-Lift.

In 1954, the author moved with her Irish husband to Canada. Their first years were spent establishing a suitable home and caring for their growing family. A decade later, Barber enrolled in teacher training and graduated with a Bachelor of Education degree in Saskatoon (1982), and a Master of Education degree in Regina (1987), majoring in Art and Curriculum Development. She spent more than twenty years working as a teacher and visual artist in Saskachewan and British Columbia. Since her retirement, Barber has devoted her time to painting and writing.

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