So as time passed, I gave up on ever reuniting with Gloria and my (our) son again even though I will never forget them. Even at this late forty-five years later (some thirtysomething years after I wrote this), Baby Ali was born on February 6, 1973. Presently, if he's alive, he's forty-five years old. My first true love, Gloria, was born on September 5, 1950. Presently, if she's alive, she has a birthdate coming up. She will be sixty-eight years of age. In closing, I hope that they are s
A shocking personal memoir and new perspective on World War II, following Helene Munson’s journey in her father’s footsteps through the years when he was one of Hitler’s child soldiers
When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker’s, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma.
During World War II, the Nazis trained some three hu
Alan D. Butcher ran his own graphic design business in Toronto and Montreal for over 20 years. He has published 2 books, I Remember Haida (Lancelot Press, 1985), and Ale & Beer (M & S 1989, history). He has three further books in progress: A novel, a memoir, and an urban social history. He lives in Cobourg Ontario and is a friend of Frances Gage.