Gift of life

A positive tuned novel of a desertion out of the hell of the Battle of the Bulge in the winter 1944, where the course of the war stays in strong contrast to the tender love story that develops between the German deserter and the pretty Belgian Monique. The book is the rejection of all forms of violence, particularly the war as most inhumane condition of human coexistence. For the author were his experiences as a young soldier a trauma that attaches to him for a lifetime. With the books, he provides readers not heroic epic, but they are coping with the worst time of his life.

Jo Manno Remark is a German writer, author of some novels refering to the history of the County Bergisches Land. He worked as a teacher for many years and wrote short stories and Theater Plays, mainly in dialect. As a pensioner he started writing his novels and at least three anti-war stories, based on his own experiences as German soldier in the last month of the Second World War. He is now 88 years old and great-grandfather of three boys and two girls.