Book Description
World War II finds Blanche Janson facing an existence as an American alien in Dresden, Germany. In 1906, Blanche had left America with her new husband, Arne, a dentist who had opened an office in Dresden. With the outbreak of the war, she finds herself alone...for her husband suddenly dies and her only daughter is far away in San Francisco, California. It is then that Blanche decides to write a diary in letter form describing the terrible ordeal she is facing, including the bombing of Dresden and miraculously surviving. In a DP camp, she makes an American flag that protects a village from looting Russians. In 1946, she finally returns home to America after 40 years in Germany.