Secrets in the Shadows

By: Heige S Boehm

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Paperback | 15 October 2019

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Fiction. Young Adult. SECRETS IN THE SHADOWS, a young adult/crossover novel, is the story of best friends Michael and Wolfie who are boys growing up in Nazi Germany. Both of them are delighted to join the Hitler Youth. But by the time the boys are twelve, a devastating event turns their world upside down. On a school trip to Berlin, the boys see a beautiful Jewish girl boarding the train with her mother. Shortly after, a horrified Michael witnesses their brutal murder--the result of anti-Semitism. As a result, Michael's loyalty to Hitler begins to show cracks. In 1943 when Michael turns sixteen, his father orders him to volunteer with the Waffen SS, and Michael then goes on to serve in the Hitler Youth 12th SS Panzer Division. Wolfie joins as well. Boehm shows them on the grim battlefields fighting hand-to-hand in the villages and towns, sometimes against the Canadians. Seeing what is happening on the battlefield, they come to reject the Nazi regime and its propaganda. In the final showdown, Michael and Wolfie are ordered to travel to Berlin, and it is there they confront the secrets that lie in the shadows of the past.

Industry Reviews

"A gripping, at times chilling, wartime story. Secrets in the Shadows takes a familiar setting and dramatizes it from a fresh perspective: child-soldiers fighting Hitler's doomed war. A sad and moving tale." - Daniel Kalla, best-selling author of The Far Side of the Sky
"Heige Boehm is not only a superb storyteller but a writer who knows the value of thorough research so that the reality of time and place and people shines from every page of her novel." - Betty Keller, recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence

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