Not to Be Forgiven
Book Details
Author(s)Nancy Mayborn Peterson
PublisherHugo House Publishers
ISBN / ASIN1936449382
ISBN-139781936449385
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank2,426,508
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
North Africa is a long way from Hiram Springs, Nebraska, and World War II strikes home when Sis Greggory's brother, Danny, is sent there to fight the Nazis. Japan and Germany are conquering country after country; the army builds a B-17 bomber training base and the town fills up with troops. Long-time neighbors are suddenly despised "aliens."With most able-bodied men away in the armed services, town folks are horrified when the government builds a prisoner of war camp and ships in German POWs to work on local farms.
Sis throws herself into home-front activities to help the troops, and while working in the family Victory Garden she meets Horst, a German POW. All Germans are monsters to Sis, but Horst is friendly and funny. Uneasy, Sis can't decide. Is he friend? Or foe? The question looms large in Sis' life. When she thinks she knows, she takes an action she will regret the rest of her life.
"Not to be Forgiven is a haunting novel about how the war twists the life of a young girl living thousands of miles from World War II battlefields. Both historian and storyteller, Nancy M. Peterson, whose nonfiction books on the West are classics, writes how a wartime friendship flares into hatred, leaving scars that cause a lifetime of regret. Set against a background of wartime rural America, Not to be Forgiven is not to be forgotten." Sandra Dallas, author of True Sisters and The Quilt Walk
