The Spiral Shell is a double journey, one inward as I come to terms with my own Jewish identity, and one outward as I uncover long silenced stories of resistance and collaboration during WW2 in Auvillar, a village in south west France and find those stories reverberating today. Two authors join together for this event - A debut memoir by Sandell Morse, The Spiral Shell, A FrenchVillage Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II and L.Annette Binder's debut novel, The Vanishing Sky. Signed copies of the books are available at White Birch Books. Purchase the Spiral Shell from White Birch Books by clicking here. Remainder books are sometimes marked by the publisher or slightly damaged.Purchase The Vanishing Sky from White Birch Books by clicking here. Note: Remaindered books or remainders are printed books that are over stocks and are sold at reduced prices. 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. 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 Nürnberg 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. 'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didn't want' The Times
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