Bøker av Martin Gillard

When the young state of Czechoslovakia is betrayed by Britain and France in 1938, two newlyweds, Tomas and Anna Kovarik, flee to France to escape Nazi tyranny. Believing themselves safe in France the young couple build a new life. But Hitler cannot be stopped and soon France too is in danger.Tomas struggles to keep his Jewish wife and their young child safe. He does not know this struggle will last a lifetime, as he encounters French collaboration, the Communist takeover of his country after World War Two, and fresh betrayal during the Cold War.Where is My Home? is a story of love and human resilience; the story of two ordinary people who show extraordinary courage in their fight to survive both the Fascist and the Communist tyrannies that dominated the lives of millions.

From the devastation of the First World War rises the new nation state of Czechoslovakia.But the fledgling state contains within it the seed of its own destruction - three and a half million ethnic Germans who feel little or no loyalty to the country.Two friends, Ernst and Pavel, return from the war to their families in the area of Czechoslovakia known to Germans as the Sudetenland. One is an Austrian from the old Hapsburg Empire, the other a Czech Legionnaire.Their children, Tomas and Anna, are childhood sweathearts growing up happily in the country Tomas' father helped create, until the rise of Fascism in Germany threatens the peace and security of the two families.When their country falls victim to a devastating act of political betrayal, how will the two young lovers and their families survive?