Shadows and Joys of a Life in Bavaria

Shadows and Joys of a Life in Bavaria is a deeply personal account of a quarter of a century of life in the aftermath of war. Gerlinde Pyron wrote about what she and her loved ones coped with--loss poverty defeat sorrow trauma and somehow through it all beauty--in rural Germany after World War II. Instead of generic impersonal historic descriptions Pyrons words paint intimate portraits of men women and children refugees soldiers and families who struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. These stories reflect both the brutal reactions to the legacy of war and the simplicity that remained untouched in the forests of Bavaria.