Weeds Like Us

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%>The uprooting of seven million civilians - women children and elderly men - from their homes in the German provinces of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /><st1:State w:st=on>East Prussia</st1:State> Pomerania and <st1:State w:st=on>Silesia</st1:State> following World War II is largely unknown in the <st1:country-region w:st=on><st1:place w:st=on>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%><SPAN style=mso-tab-count: 1></SPAN><I style=mso-bidi-font-style: normal>Weeds Like Us</I> is a gripping true adventure story about the author's own East Prussian family.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>The author's earliest years were spent in relative comfort on his grandfather's farm in <st1:State w:st=on><st1:place w:st=on>East Prussia</st1:place></st1:State> during World War II.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>For him life in Hitler's <st1:country-region w:st=on><st1:place w:st=on>Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> was the natural order of things.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Then in January 1945 just after the author's seventh birthday the Russians rolled into <st1:State w:st=on><st1:place w:st=on>East Prussia</st1:place></st1:State>.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>Full of unexpected twists and turns <I style=mso-bidi-font-style: normal>Weeds Like Us</I> tells the story of what happened over the next six years as the author's family tried to make its way safely to the West.</P>