Brothers on the Run: Fleeing Hitler, Fighting Franco - Paperback

by Pat Lorraine Simons (Author)

Based on a true story, Brothers on the Run takes you on a high-velocity ride across pre-World War II Europe. In 1933, two teenage Jewish brothers barely escape death at the Nazis' hands, only to find themselves crisscrossing Europe as refugees whose survival depends on their luck, daring, and wits. In 1936, when the US denies them entry, the boys enlist as foreign soldiers in the Spanish Civil War-a fateful decision that indelibly scars them, brutally delivers them into manhood, and serendipitously opens the door to freedom.

Author Biography

Pat Lorraine Simons is a former trial lawyer and English teacher. She has published award-winning poetry and short fiction in magazines and anthologies. She also founded a nonprofit organization that inspires low-income children to become readers (www.readyreaders.org). She lives with her husband in St. Louis, Missouri.