You are my brother

Samuel West talks about his life as an Afro-American in New York at the 30s and the beginning of the war. Werner Höfken talks from his Nazi Germany in Cologne. Both their youths join the training as soldiers and the war effort in foreign countries. In the winter of 1944 their fateful meeting as mortal enemies occurs during the Ardennes battle. 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.