Based on a true story of an elite German paratrooper captured by British troops and sent to a POW camp in the United States. Meeting The Enemy weaves the captivating tale of this once Nationalist German Captain's three year odyssey toward home, spanning three continents and eight POW camps. The book is a well researched look at life in the POW camps holding German prisoners.

Meeting the Enemy

Literature & Fiction

Rathburn, Arthur C.

Genre Fiction

Fort Dane Books

The biography of a Wisconsin immigrant. Raised in a Germany being awakened by the stirring voice of Adolf Hitler -- Manfred Donath went on to serve in his army. After defeat, he struggled under Communism and eventually fled to America. Through this book the life story of a soldier of the Reich turned patriotic American comes to life.

The Lucky Man: Manfred Donath

Biographies & Memoirs

Rathburn, Arthur

Historical

The captivating true story of Maria, a telephone girl during the 1930's and 40's in Berlin Germany. This is a story of love, friendship, and compassion told by Maria to the author. It is a well researched historical record of women stuggling to live normal lives during the times of starvation, racial tension, bombing, murder, and rape. It has been called "The women's version of All Quiet on the Western Front. The story is read by the author and his German wife, Ursula.

Friends Don't Quit

The American German is the true story of an American born youth raised on a farm in Northern Germany during World War Two. Jurgen Frank's life story gives us a fascinating look at rural Germany during the war years, and the experience of an immigrant as he is repatriated back to the land of his birth.

The American German

Marriage is a venture of compromise. When this is complicated by having the couple raised in very different cultures this venture of compromise becomes a tagic comedy. The meeting, romance, and marriage of Art Rathburn and Ursula Rauch is a fun informative story of such a match. How can a happy union result when it faces the many cultural barriers thrown up between a carefree boy from a small mountain village in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California and an urban minded, sophisticated, German girl raised with old Prussian standards?

My Pretty Fraulein: A Journey Through Cultural Bondaries

Teen & Young Adult

Rathburn, Ursula

Biographies

Eva entered adulthood in a world increasingly dangerous for people of her faith and background. Faced with being "transported" or perhaps shot by the Nazis just because they were Jews, Eva and her husband disappeared into the underground in 1942. For the remainder of World War Two they continued to work and live in the Berlin area without being apprehended by the dreaded Gestapo. This is a story of couragious and ingenious people surviving where few others were able to. A historically acurate and true account.

No More Tears Left Behind: The Remarkable Story of Eva Deutschkron, a Holocaust Survivor Who Avoided Arrest While Living and Working in Berlin, Germany Throughout WWII

The captivating true story of Maria, one of the first telephone girls in Berlin, Germany. This is a story of love, friendship, and compassion being challanged by the starvation, racial and political tension, bombing, murder and rape of the turbulent war years. This story has been called "The women's version of All Quiet on the Western Front."

Akira Toki's family was the only Japanese family in Madison, Wisconsin on the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. He was soon to find himself in the US Army where he learned what prejudice really was. As he fought with the famous 100th Battalion, this Battalion of all Anmericans of Japanese ancestory was known as the "Purple Heart Battalion, his future wife was being held in a relocation camp at Tule Lake, California.

The American Japanese: Akira Toki, an American Patriot

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Meeting the Enemy

The Lucky Man: Manfred Donath

Friends Don't Quit

The American German

My Pretty Fraulein: A Journey Through Cultural Bondaries

No More Tears Left Behind: The Remarkable Story of Eva Deutschkron, a Holocaust Survivor Who Avoided Arrest While Living and Working in Berlin, Germany Throughout WWII

Friends Don't Quit

The American Japanese: Akira Toki, an American Patriot