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Kätchen's Continued Story: A German Girl Like Me Book 2 Kindle Edition

by Joseph R. Costa (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In March of 1941, the war in Europe rages, and the story of a German girl and her family continues. Now a young woman, Kätchen has been sent by her family to the safety of America prior to the outbreak of war. When mail service to Germany is cut off, she loses contact with them and any means of helping them. Rolf, who she hopes to marry and whose bomber was shot down over England, is a German Prisoner Of War being transported to a prison camp in Canada. Kätchen's family in Hamburg, Germany must live under harsh Nazi rule and worsening conditions. After the horrendous bombing of Hamburg in July 1943, they escape to live with an aunt in a small town in central Germany. Theirs is a story of the miserable conditions in Germany during and after the war. Kätchen and her family were not part of Hitler’s rise to power and takeover of Germany, but they like many others would suffer the pain and consequences of Hitler’s rule. Kätchen's is a story of love, hope, and endurance as she and her family face the events and hardships of war.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015HOLQZG
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 16, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1267 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 345 pages
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Joseph R. Costa

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Hello and welcome. I will begin by saying that I was raised on a farm in rural northern California. After attending college in the Midwest, I became a naval officer and spent twenty years in the Navy, followed by several years as a naval consultant.

I have always enjoyed reading books. While writing has been part of my work all my life, I never considered writing a novel until later in retirement when I became interested in writing about my mother’s story of immigrating to the US from Nazi Germany before World War II. A great many things described in my first book "Kätchen’s Story" are based on her memories, photos, and papers. I still have her German passport with a swastika on the front and an immigration visa stamp inside. After an initial version of her known history, I broadened the story to bring out other interesting historical aspects of the times. A family friend was a Luftwaffe pilot whose bomber was shot down over England during the Battle of Britain. He became a prisoner of war held in Canada where he worked for a farmer and learned beekeeping. So I researched and was fascinated to find how lucky those prisoners were. Having always had a interest in history, I make a great effort to accurately portray the events and conditions of the times.

The “True Friends” books are set in Spain in the late 1500s (the time of Cervantes). My father’s parents were Portuguese immigrants from the Azores. Even so, I feel a distant connection with Spain, being raised on an almond orchard in the Mediterranean climate of the Sacramento Valley. For some years, I have been interested in writing a story set in those times and finally began in earnest when trying to make productive use of my time homebound during the pandemic. The books are meant to be an entertaining tale about close friends and Spanish life in those times.

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Kau Lehua
5.0 out of 5 stars A look Inside Germany During & After WWII
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2020
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This is the 2nd book in a series that gives us readers a glimpse of life in Germany before, during & after WWII. The story of Katchen & her family fairly fascinated me & I found myself reading when I should have been doing many other things. I read just about anything relating to WWII especially those based on real, historic happenings, like this series. I recommend this series to anyone who has interest in this time in history. The book could have benefitted from a good editing, but I do not let that detract me from the story line. I found Katchen to be such a wonderful, hard working individual. The world would be a much better place if she could be cloned! Both her & her sister waited years to reunite with their men. I know the world was a very different place back then, but I was impressed with their unfailing loyalty to men they had not been able to spend much time with before being separated by the war. One complaint I have is being left hanging about the outcome of Ruth’s reunion with Ulrich.
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Speedy Grandma
4.0 out of 5 stars Takes the reader to a new level of understanding of the hardships imposed on the German people
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018
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KATCHEN'S STORY by Joseph R. Costa takes the reader to a new level of understanding of the hardships imposed on the German people themselves from the fanatical Fuhrer's reign. Beginning when Katchen was a child in the 1930s and continuing through a few years after World War II, hers--and her family's--is an amazing account of despair but perseverance to survive unthinkable dangers. There is a lot of detail that paints a very clear image of how things were. I learned much from these two books. I would have assigned five stars rather than four had I not been irritated by the "See Jane... See Jane run... See Jane and Spot run" type of prose. It just did not flow as well as it could have and often had too much irrelevant description that one had to wade through. But overall, it is a very interesting story.
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Linda M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2022
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I didn’t comment on the first book, because I was left not knowing what to say about it. But this being the other end of it, I can finally say something. This is nothing like the Holocaust books I’ve been reading. I was under the impression that all Germany was for Hitler. But like everything there’s two sides.
Thank you for this side of WWII.
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Cheryl J Stanek
5.0 out of 5 stars Kitchens Story book 1 and 2
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2021
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These books are wonderfully written and full of history. Each was a very fast read for me. I had a hard time putting b them down. The characters are described so perfectly, I could see their faces in my minds eye. I've read many memoirs and stories of this war and these books are a must read for anyone interested in history. You won't be disappointed!
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Wilma Pulice
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2017
Can someone explain last chapter
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lrueb58523
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Books
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2022
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Bread of life. Give us this day our daily bread.These books show us how with a lot of faith, and bread for food we can do a lot in our lives.
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Martha
4.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable story of how "ordinary" people endured
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2021
I tore through both books in just a few days, engrossed in the story of these "ordinary" Germans, who turned out to not be "ordinary" at all but brave, resourceful and above all enduring as they lived through horror and privation most of us on this side of the pond did not experience during the Second World War. I cannot imagine immigrating at the age of 18, alone, separated from a family you might never see again because of a looming war, The writing sometimes is a bit elementary but after a bit, you grow accustomed to it and it becomes less of a hindrance. I understand this to be a true story, though I am a bit perplexed about the note on the author, whose mother is Kaetchen in the story, is described as having a father of Portuguese heritage. That does not jive with the character of Rolf.. nor with what happened to Kaetchen and Rolf. (that is as far as I go, don't want to interject a spoiler). For Rolf not to be "real" would be quite stunning. I once knew someone who would have been about the age of Ruth when the Second World War began; she was from a town south of Breslau (Now Wroclaw, Poland), Silesia. Hers was one of the families expelled after that part of Germany was given to Poland after the war. She herself walked out of a British DP camp in Northern Germany to look for them. She told me a little of her experiences, but I suspect she left out much; reading this second book in particular I could almost imagine some of what she did not say. None of us that did not endure what they did can really comprehend, but we can be thankful that they told the stories so that we do not forget the horror of war. Most of the people who fought, or just lived through the Second World War who clearly remember it will be gone soon; all we will have are the stories they put down for the rest of us. This is one of them.
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tcrook
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent presentation of real life who lived through Nazism WWII
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2018
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Very well written of a young girl who was able to live through all the experiences one suffered through the WWII Nazi Germany. It showed the good times as well and how a young girl was able to cope through the turmoil of wartime.
I would recommend the two volumes of this series as it is well written prose. If you are interested in life for a young girl who was able to survive all the atrocities of war and to escape Germany. Great reading and an enjoyable and riveting.
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