Steps of Courage: My Parents' Journey from Nazi Germany to America

by Bettina Hoerlin

Book Overview

This riveting love story, revolving around two extraordinary individuals, plays out against some of the most profound markers of the 20th century: Hitler's Germany, the American immigrant experience and growing threats of the nuclear age. Hermann Hoerlin and Kate Tietz Schmid meet in 1934; he, a handsome world record-holding mountaineer and aspiring physicist, is a staunch anti-fascist and she, part of Munich's intellectual and musical elite, is a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463426186
• ISBN13: 9781463426187
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"