""This memoir shares Monika's passion and compassion for life along with her strength and ability to survive adversities. Her story is a courageous one ... never to be forgotten. It is a privilege to read it and honor to own it."" -Julie E. Knox-Brown M.Ed., Howard Community College ""In her seventy something years of a flamboyant life, Monika Smith has learned a few things about living. And about history. She is sharing them in this autobiographical and historical tour de force which takes the reader from her refined Second World War Viennese milieu, where Monika was the only child of a...

""This memoir shares Monika's passion and compassion for life along with her strength and ability to survive adversities. Her story is a courageous one ... never to be forgotten. It is a privilege to read it and honor to own it."" -Julie E. Knox-Brown M.Ed., Howard Community College ""In her seventy something years of a flamboyant life, Monika Smith has learned a few things about living. And about history. She is sharing them in this autobiographical and historical tour de force which takes the reader from her refined Second World War Viennese milieu, where Monika was the only child of a...