Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered

by Luisa Lang Owen

Not all casualties of war die on the battlefield. In the wake of World War II, Yugoslavia purged its territory of the ethnic Germans who had formed a part of its human mosaic. Tarred with their ethnic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585442127
• ISBN13: 9781585442126
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

History from another perspective

I read this book looking for answers. I grew up listening to stories that were almost identical to this book. I didn't understand why my mother was in a labor camp as a child after the war. Her family has made the same mistake of not leaving in time. The war was over and they niavely believed life would return to normal. It is good to know that someone has told the story.

What the world wanted to deny that it happened!

This book should be read by all Danube Swabians and their offsprings as well as all freedom-loving, truth seeking and fair minded people of this world.

Being Distilled

Luisa Lang Owen's recounting of her childhood and the losses she and others experienced before, during and after the war, including three years in a concentration camp is, at once, both hauntingly beautiful and horrific. Her captors, in seeking to exterminate individuals and their culture ironically distilled, in this young woman, the essence of being. Her lush and loving attention to detail, her artistic perceptions were heightened and strengthened in those years, and what we sometimes refer to as the "strength of the human spirit" is clearly defined in the telling of this woman's coming of age under life-threatening conditions. Both fascinated and saddened by the telling, I felt as if I'd entered the spirit of someone who has always lived and continues to live fully and attentively in the world.