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Series
Fire and steel volume 3
Language
English
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In the difficult years following World War I, the Elkhardt family in Bavaria experiences increasing turmoil in their lives as they try to move forward in a nation deeply divided. Suffering the devastating impact of defeat in the Great War, the people of Germany must find a solution to dire economic conditions -- particularly skyrocketing inflation -- resulting from the country's staggering war reparation dictated by the Treaty of Versailles. Conditions...
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 4
Language
English
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Battered down and humiliated on an international scale, post-World War I Germany is a nation on the brink of economic and social collapse. Work is scarce, food has become an extravagance, and money is practically worthless. The people have lost the pride and conviction that once carried them. But some see their suffering as a political opportunity to restore the Fatherland to its former glory--by any means necessary. In the fourth volume of Gerald...
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 5
Language
English
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The Eckhardt and the Westland families are caught up in a whirlwind that will permanently and profoundly alter their lives. Mired in the depths of a global economic depression, the world takes little notice of a 1930 Parliamentary election in the floundering democracy of Germany. But overnight, Hitler and his Nazi Party catapult from the smallest to the second-largest political party in the country. And he would not stop there. From the compulsory...
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 1
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1884, the Westland family arrives to settle in the harsh country of San Juan County, Utah, and works hard to make a life as the 19th century comes to a close. In 1908, the Schutze family raises their children and milks their cows in Graswang Village, Germany. For both families, although they don't know it, events are moving them and their world toward World War I.
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 6
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Into the Flames, volume 6 of the Fire and Steel series, begins as Adolf Hitler completes his transformation of the German Republic into a total, harsh dictatorship and as the Great Depression continues to ravage the United States. The tumultuous times bring new experiences, new challenges, new opportunities, and not a few tragedies into the lives of the Eckhardt and Westland families. In America, Mitch and Edie Westland continue their struggle to...
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 2
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Eckhardt family finds that the turmoil in their lives will only increase as they try to move froward in a nation divided. Seargeant Hans Eckhardt has been discharged from his military service and wants nothing more than to start a new life with a career and a family, but the unrest swallowing his homeland seems determined to stop him. Suffering the devastating impact of defeat in the Great War, the people of Germany must find ways to face widespread...
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