Retreat: A Love Story
Magda was a pretty young war widow on her lunch break. Hans was a soldier on furlough, a Bavarian farm boy Magda found wandering lost in Berlin. After two weeks together, she sent him on his way—back to the nightmare of the Eastern Front.

Nine months later, Magda is trying to survive as her city is bombed to rubble, while Hans is somewhere in the Ukraine, slogging through snow and mud to find his way back to her, struggling to maintain his humanity despite the horrors he has survived and the brutality he has witnessed—and perpetrated.

Retreat is a story of the terrible costs of war, of love amid crushing defeat, of complicity—and redemption.
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Retreat: A Love Story
Magda was a pretty young war widow on her lunch break. Hans was a soldier on furlough, a Bavarian farm boy Magda found wandering lost in Berlin. After two weeks together, she sent him on his way—back to the nightmare of the Eastern Front.

Nine months later, Magda is trying to survive as her city is bombed to rubble, while Hans is somewhere in the Ukraine, slogging through snow and mud to find his way back to her, struggling to maintain his humanity despite the horrors he has survived and the brutality he has witnessed—and perpetrated.

Retreat is a story of the terrible costs of war, of love amid crushing defeat, of complicity—and redemption.
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Retreat: A Love Story

Retreat: A Love Story

by John Guzlowski
Retreat: A Love Story

Retreat: A Love Story

by John Guzlowski

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Overview

Magda was a pretty young war widow on her lunch break. Hans was a soldier on furlough, a Bavarian farm boy Magda found wandering lost in Berlin. After two weeks together, she sent him on his way—back to the nightmare of the Eastern Front.

Nine months later, Magda is trying to survive as her city is bombed to rubble, while Hans is somewhere in the Ukraine, slogging through snow and mud to find his way back to her, struggling to maintain his humanity despite the horrors he has survived and the brutality he has witnessed—and perpetrated.

Retreat is a story of the terrible costs of war, of love amid crushing defeat, of complicity—and redemption.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781948403238
Publisher: Kasva Press
Publication date: 03/26/2021
Pages: 297
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Guzlowski’s Polish parents met in a Nazi slave-labor camp, and he was born a Displaced Person. Growing up in Chicago’s “Murdertown”, he saw his friends beaten, their houses burned, their parents killed in the street. An acclaimed teacher and poet, Guzlowski remembers those who survived the war, and the ones who didn’t survive Chicago.
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