Nina Willner writes of her father Eddie Willner in this wonderfully crafted and researched narrative of non-fiction set in the height of WWII and the Holocaust. She merges the stories of two groups of young men one from across America the other including her father rounded up by Hitler’s SS and sent to forced labor concentration camps. Somehow fate brought them together as US Army Armored Division Company D and two Jewish teens, the author’s father and his best friend Mike met at the Battle of the Bulge.

He was just 18 when they found him, half dead after surviving five years in the camps, where both of his parents were killed. Eddie and Dutch friend Mike managed to flee their SS Guards while on a death march. With no one else left to help them Company D did.

Who were these men of Company D, what had they lived through and how was it possible that they would ultimately save the lives of two young Jewish teens who themselves defied all odds and survived?

Nina Willner tells this t story with passion as only a daughter’s love for her Dad could accomplish.

An important read during the 80th Anniversary year of the end of WWII.