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Don't Throw the Bread: A Young Girl's Journey During World War II

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I found this warm, down to earth story about an eleven-day period during WWII easy reading. Gerry Niskern managed to create living history with a series of delightful family stories told by her mother during layovers on a bus trip her family took during wartime. Her description of the soldiers and sailors listening as well, while trying to get home on leave was touching. This fast paced and absorbing portrayal of her family was profoundly honest. Niskern paints compelling portraits of family members and weaves in her emigrant grandparent's experiences in America. If you remember WWII you will be nodding in recognition and younger readers like me will enjoy an easy dose of history. I found this memoir within a memoir deeply moving. You will not want to put it down and when you've finished, you'll wish it was longer.

I ordinarily don't buy books anymore but wanted Gerry Niskern's book as I grew up in Phoenix, AZ and went to high school with her, but we didn't know each other. "Don't Throw the Bread" brings back memories of growing up during WWII. The way she writes I could imagine myself right there with her and her family. She made me remember seeing troops trains going through Union Station in Phoenix and my mother telling me not to say anything to anyone about them. Would I buy another book written by Gerry Niskern, Yes.