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. But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. The Vanishing Sky is the story of one German family, the Hubers, in the waning months of WWII: mother Etta, father Joseph who appears to be sinking into the dementia that overwhelmed his father, older son Max serving on the Eastern front, and younger son Georg, 15 years old and off training with the Hitler Youth. When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next. 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
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