The Invisible Highway: A Family History through Immigration, Two Wars and the Great Depression

By Robert P. Asztalos

History is really the accumulation of individual's stories. Bob Asztalos weaves the stories of his ancestors with those of our nation and the world. He documents the lives of his relatives who emigrated from bucolic villages in Europe across the "Invisible Highway," that is the Atlantic Ocean, to new lives in America. His family survives the horrors of World War I, the euphoria of the Roaring Twenties, and the despair of the Great Depression. As the nation grapples with avoiding, then confronting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Bob's mother does her part in the war effort as a "Rosie the Riveter," and his father serving under General Patton in Europe. His uncle and a lost family member joined in the force that defeated the Imperial Japanese forces, in two very different ways. The result of his relatives efforts is a classic American melting pot story where the lives of four European families were blended into the American dream and produced American families.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D91XR7G3
• ISBN13: 9798332485923
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 376 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"