'This compelling memoir of a German girl's bitter, frightening life reveals the horrors visited upon an average family caught between two of the cruelest dictators in history.. The small, poignant touches are riveting." -"Kirkus Discoveries"

"I think about what I want and what makes me happy,
But orderly and quietly to myself.
Because my thoughts tear down fortresses and walls,
My thoughts are free.
-German folk song, author unknown"

The beautiful, safe, joyful places in young Tilli's imagination were her only refuge from the bombing that tore through the sky above...

'This compelling memoir of a German girl's bitter, frightening life reveals the horrors visited upon an average family caught between two of the cruelest dictators in history.. The small, poignant touches are riveting." -"Kirkus Discoveries"

"I think about what I want and what makes me happy,
But orderly and quietly to myself.
Because my thoughts tear down fortresses and walls,
My thoughts are free.
-German folk song, author unknown"

The beautiful, safe, joyful places in young Tilli's imagination were her only refuge from the bombing that tore through the sky above...