How do ordinary citizens survive the devastation of war when it arrives on their own soil? These are the true stories of three women whose destiny was changed forever when their lives and homelands were shattered by invasion. MARYSIA'S JOURNEY begins with her deportation from Eastern Poland to a collective farm in Siberia. Annedore of DENIED ENTRANCE was refused entry to Silesia, her homeland, at war's end since this area of Eastern Germany had been given to Poland after World War II. WIESIA, WOMAN OF HOPE reveals a firsthand picture of life in Poland when the country becomes a Communist Satellite after World War II. She is perilously involved with the Solidarity Movement as it is born and flourishes.

How do ordinary citizens survive the devastation of war when it arrives on their own soil? These are the true stories of three women whose destiny was changed forever when their lives and homelands were shattered by invasion. MARYSIA'S JOURNEY begins with her deportation from Eastern Poland to a collective farm in Siberia. Annedore of DENIED ENTRANCE was refused entry to Silesia, her homeland, at war's end since this area of Eastern Germany had been given to Poland after World War II. WIESIA, WOMAN OF HOPE reveals a firsthand picture of life in Poland when the country becomes a Communist Satellite after World War II. She is perilously involved with the Solidarity Movement as it is born and flourishes.

TABEA'S STORY is the memoir of a World War II German army nurse. She traveled to the front lines of Russia many times on a hospital train and tells her eye witness account of the war. Tabea is a God-fearing woman whose convictions lead her to confront the Nazis. She loses the love of her life to the war. Romance, humor, a sprinkling of history and a surprise ending add zest to the book.