{"product_id":"the-enchanted-suitcase-helga-warren-9781685130954","title":"The Enchanted Suitcase: A Window Onto My German Father's World War II Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnexpectedly finding her German father's World War II memoirs in an old suitcase, transports author Helga Warren to romantic Paris in wartime, surrender from inside a German bunker on the beaches of Normandy, behind the barbed wire of a prisoner of war camp in Aliceville, Alabama and on to the start of a new life in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author discovers a man full of enthusiasm and the fervor of youth-and a marvelous writer-revealing unseen sides of the father she thought she knew. A whole new world opens up, all because of a sheaf of tattered papers in the bottom of what can only be called an enchanted suitcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the few eyewitness accounts of the little-known history of German prisoners of war in America during World War II, Karlheinz Stoess's story gives us a glimpse into the life of what was known as a \"Scheuerfrau\" or \"scrubwoman\" of the Wehrmacht-an ordinary German soldier at the crossroads of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helga Warren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168513095X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685130954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Rose Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Helga Warren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44079251128575,"sku":"9781685130954","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_611065fd-9c54-4b3a-ad3c-9e20937e00a5.jpg?v=1685480055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-enchanted-suitcase-helga-warren-9781685130954","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}