Books Details
Author : Amy Lynn Green Pages : 416 pages Publisher : Bethany House
Publishers Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0764237160 ISBN-13 :
9780764237164
Books Descriptions
Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the University of
Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not
include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she
left behind there. But the US Army wants her to work as a translator at a
nearby camp for German POWs.Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy
town exploding with hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do
with German soldiers laboring in their fields, and they're not afraid to
criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna describes the
trouble to her friend Peter Ito, a language instructor at a school for
military intelligence officers, he encourages her to give the town that
rejected her a second chance.As Johanna interacts with the men of the
camp and censors their letters home, she begins to see the prisoners in a
more sympathetic light. But advocating for better treatment makes her
enemies in the community, especially when charismatic German
