A forbidden love in Hitler’s Germany, and the family it carried across three generations to a homeland of their own.
It begins with a German boy and a Jewish girl who love each other in a country built to keep them apart — and follows their family from the death camps to the deck of the Exodus, from the founding of Israel to the Six-Day War and beyond. Five books, three generations, one unbreakable bond.
Five books. From Hitler’s Germany to the Promised Land — the whole epic, in order.
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The story
In Nazi Germany, a German boy named Detrick Haswell and the Jewish Abendstern family are bound by an act of kindness and a forbidden love — Detrick and Leah — that Hitler’s world will do everything to destroy. To protect them, Detrick takes on the most dangerous role of all: a Nazi in name, a traitor at heart.
From there the epic widens across three generations and half a century — through the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka, the refugee ship Exodus bound for Palestine, the birth of Israel and the Six-Day War, and at last the secrets of a Mossad agent and the daughter searching for him. Five books, one family, and a love that outlasts everything sent to break it. Read in order, start to finish.
The epic
All My Love, Detrick
An act of kindness binds a German boy, Detrick Haswell, to Jacob Abendstern’s Jewish family — and to Leah Abendstern, the love of his life. As the Nazi Party’s genocidal machine rises, Detrick joins the Party to protect the people he loves, becoming an unwilling poster boy and a secret traitor. In Hitler’s hateful world, there will be hell to pay for forbidden love and quiet kindness.
You Are My Sunshine
Young artist Manfred Blau finds favor with propaganda chief Josef Goebbels and rises fast through the Nazi ranks — until his father-in-law is caught hiding Jews, and Manfred must pay an unthinkable price to prove his loyalty. Meanwhile, the storm of persecution drives Zofia from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, where the sun seems to set on her life for good. But even there, hope refuses to die.
The Promised Land
The war is over, but the survivors have nowhere to call home. Zofia Weiss stands at the dock holding a little girl’s hand, about to board the SS Exodus bound for Palestine — carrying only her life, a dream, and a terrifying secret. Then she sees a familiar face in the crowd, and her past and her future collide on the deck of a ship the whole world is watching.
To Be An Israeli
Israel is a nation now, thriving but surrounded by enemies — and when the Six-Day War erupts, every Israeli is called to defend it. Mendel is drafted, and his wife Katja battles her fear of losing him with her mother, Zofia, at her side. Elan turns his back on his frightened American wife to march into battle. Each of them learns what they will sacrifice to keep the land they call home.
Forever, My Homeland
The epic’s final generation. Against her mother Janice’s wishes, Bari Lynn travels to Israel to find her homeland — and her father, Elan. It goes wrong almost at once. As Mossad agent Elan reckons with a devastating loss, he stumbles onto a revelation that will change everything, and the family’s oldest secrets prove they are not finished yet.
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