Title: Roxanne
Review: I read this book in grade school, before I knew much about WW II. I read this book and The Ark rather secretly, because my family and schoolteacher were of the penchant that the "Germans got what they deserved" and that German refugees weren't deserving of sympathy. I loved the book then, but was unable to find anything else that this author had written. Many years later I came across Rowan Farm in a used bookstore. Coincidentally, I ended up married to a German man from Berlin, whose grandparents had suffered terribly during the war and afterwards....I had also become an amateur historian, specializing in the first half of the 20th century. Reading Rowan Farm now was a delight, since I could better understand what was transpiring, and didn't have to read it secretly! It should be required reading of schoolchildren, so they can get a more balanced view of war--that there are no winners or losers, just people who suffer and endure, and in this case, find love no matter what.
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