The Vanishing Sky

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Paperback. Like New. 'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they did n't want' The Times They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. They'd ta ke the sky if they could. Germany, 1945, and the bombs are falling. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husba nd Josef roam an empty nest: their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontl ines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a Nürnber g school for the Hitler Youth. At home, news of the war provokes daily dose s of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next. When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future.