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The Bride's Trunk is steadily gaining very positive reviews in the UK and Germany - "Beautifully told, it stays with you long after the last page is sadly turned". These don't show up at amazon.com , where there are so far no reviews.
Still FREE to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
It's at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IL87WOO. Please do leave a review if you like it.
Thanks!
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This new nonfiction book is collecting very positive reviews e.g. 'A compelling and enlightening account of the wartime experiences of a young German woman.'
It's topical this year. Seventy years ago, on 1st August 1946 in the aftermath of the Second World War, the British Government withdrew the ban on British soldiers marrying German women. The subsequent months witnessed a steady flow of German women arriving in Britain to marry British soldiers and ex-servicemen.
In a blend of object-based social history and family memoir, Ingrid Dixon tells the story of her parents, who met in the chaos of post-war Germany and married in 1946. This is her first book, based on her own experience of growing up within both the British and German cultures. Jackie Ashley has called it ‘an extraordinary narrative’ and Dr Philip Towle thinks it a ‘sensitive treatment of the conflicting feelings associated with war’. It is profusely illustrated and we hope that many readers will agree that it is a page-turner.
The Kindle version is half price or better for three days in a weekend special 19th -21st August. It's FREE for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
In the UK, find it at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IL87WOO,
in the USA at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IL87WOO
If you like it, do please leave a review at Amazon. Thanks!
The recent Kindle Countdown for
was disappointing, possibly because the large number of photographs and documents in the book limited how much it could be discounted.
However, t's still getting a modest number of reads on KU, as the file size doesn't seem to matter.
As well as the positive reviews on Amazon UK and Germany, it now has a couple on Amazon.com, e.g. "a beautifully written account of events which were tragic and impacted families on both sides of the conflict of the second world war". As a reminder, it's Ingrid Dixon's story of her German mother and British soldier father, who met in the chaos of post-war Germany and married in 1946. Not an unusual story, but this may be the first written by the child of such a couple, examining the issues of growing up in two cultures.
In paperback and Kindle, and still free on Kindle Unlimited at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IL87WOO, Thanks to those who've downloaded it already!
If you liked it, do please leave a review at Amazon.
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by Ingrid Dixon
'Beautifully told, it stays with you long after the last page is sadly turned.'
'An extraordinary narrative'
A compelling and enlightening account of the wartime experiences of a young German woman, her family and the Englishman she would marry. In a blend of object-based social history and family memoir, Ingrid Dixon tells the story of her parents, who met in the chaos of post-war Germany and married in 1946.
The book is profusely illustrated and many readers say it is a page-turner. The Kindle version is half price or better for three days 25 to 27 December 2016. Still FREE for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
In the UK, find it at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IL87WOO,
in the USA at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IL87WOO
If you like it, do please leave a review at Amazon. Thanks!
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Seventy years ago, on 1st August 1946 in the aftermath of the Second World War, the British Government withdrew the ban on British soldiers marrying German women. The subsequent months witnessed a steady flow of German women arriving in Britain to marry British soldiers and ex-servicemen.
In a blend of object-based social history and family memoir, Ingrid Dixon tells the story of her parents, who met in the chaos of post-war Germany and married in 1946. This is her first book, based on her own experience of growing up within both the British and German cultures. British journalist Jackie Ashley has called it ‘an extraordinary narrative’ and historian Dr Philip Towle thinks it a ‘sensitive treatment of the conflicting feelings associated with war’. It is profusely illustrated and we hope that many readers will agree that it is a page-turner.
Find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IL87WOO or https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IL87WOO.
If you like it, do please leave a review at Amazon. Thanks!