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The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocratand a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aime, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron, a penniless exile of the Russian revolution. They marry. But the harsh reality of postWorld War I Germany is inescapable: a bleak economy and the rise of Hitler quash Heinrichs diplomatic ambitions, and their struggling family farm north of Berlin drains Aimes modest fortune. In 1941, Heinrich volunteers for the Russian front and is killed by a sniper. Widowed, living in a country soon at war with her own, Aime must fend for herself. With home and family in jeopardy, she and her six young children flee the advancing Russian army in an epic journey, back to the country she thought shed left behind. Read more