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MENDING FENCES is a novel that takes place near the end of WWII.
Europe lay in destruction and utter chaos. The German borders are
being threatened and the last available young and old men are
conscripted into the final battle for their homeland. One such
recruit, barely 17 years of age is one such youth asked to save
their country. He was outspoken about the war, but at severe
penalties, even death, he is sworn in as a German soldier with
accelerated training.the rawest of recruits. He is quickly exposed
to the horrors and realities of war and is captured by the American
prison camp he meets up with a sadistic French civilian overseer of
the prison program, singled out and subjected to the harshest of
treatments. With the help of another prisoner, they set up a plan
of revenge to deal with their superior, especially since he had met
a French girl quite innocently and his treatment had worsened upon
exposure. Otto and the French girl had formed a friendship, and
when she too was exposed, she and her family were both subjected to
another form of cruelty and blackmail. It appears that their
friendship, however innocent, is doomed, but a strange, unexpected
homecoming by a family member changes it all.
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