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Amerika? America!

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This book is unique

Eva Krutein tells Americans about the culture shock immigrants experience. In her case, coming from Germany, living in Chile, South America, before coming to the United States. Eva describes the difficulties she and her five children had when adjusting to the new culture. She talks about hardships of learning a new language, of getting jobs and university degrees in music. Their new friends show them that Americans are considerate and cooperative.

Her husband Manfred, an ocean mining engineer, tells how he becomes involved in a super-secret espionage affair, lifting a sunken Soviet submarine in the Pacific Ocean from 16,000 feet water depth. Neither his family nor his friends know about the project which lasted four years. He wrote about his secret actions in a diary. The interweaving of the couple's experiences makes this book so unique. It keeps the reader's interest to the last page of the book.

This story retells the ups and downs of a family's modern-day immigration story. Who would ever guess that this couple would play so many roles in five decades on three continents - from 1940's Europe, to 1950's South America, 1960's spy adventures in the U.S.' attempt to retrieve a Russian nuclear submarine, to the present day.

The entire series of books are a joy to read.