"In the Shadow of the Mill" is a girl's vision of turmoil in World War II and its aftermath, with an intimate portrayal of a village life that is no more. "Travel back to another place and time in author Rosemarie Schulga's moving family memoir, "In the Shadow of the Mill." In richly atmospheric prose, Schulga describes the life-and-death drama of her remote German village and here own evocative coming of age. Schulga's world is one where girls are married off at the age of fourteen and where education of females is deemed unnecessary. It's also a tumultuous time, when old superstitions clash...
"In the Shadow of the Mill" is a girl's vision of turmoil in World War II and its aftermath, with an intimate portrayal of a village life that is no m...