Weeds Like Us

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">The uprooting of seven million civilians women, children, and elderly men from their homes in the German provinces of<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State w:st="on">East Prussia</st1:State>, Pomerania, and<st1:State w:st="on">Silesia</st1:State> following World War II is largely unknown in the<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</P><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"></SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Weeds Like Us</I> is a gripping true adventure story about the authors own East Prussian family.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>The authors earliest years were spent in relative comfort on his grandfathers farm in<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">East Prussia</st1:place></st1:State> during World War II.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>For him, life in Hitlers<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> was the natural order of things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Then, in January 1945, just after the authors seventh birthday, the Russians rolled into<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">East Prussia</st1:place></st1:State>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>Full of unexpected twists and turns,<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Weeds Like Us</I> tells the story of what happened over the next six years, as the authors family tried to make its way safely to the West.</P>

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