Heroes in Peace and War

About the Book

This book is a love story and contains sketches of different military families deployed in Germany. It is a novel about a young widow and her trip visiting her military family members in Germany to escape the reminders of her loss at home and revisiting places she had lived earlier in life, renewing old friendships and forming new ones. A red cord woven all through the stories, is the new friendship with a young soldiers with an unsettled situation he chooses to keep secret for a time, causing the heroine consternation and doubts along the way. It is finally resolved, but then Desert Shield and Desert Storm interfere with a solution. Escaping battles without a scratch, the soldier returns to Germany to suffer life-threatening injuries in a car accident. But the widow’s vacation trip into the past leads her into a bright future in the end.

About the Author

Ingrid Cowan was born in Berlin, Germany, on June 19, 1927. She left Germany in November 1958 and became a U. S. citizen on May 1, 1963. Her work life was varied and often depended on her husband being transferred to different places. Cowan worked as a journalist for two different newspapers and as a reporter for TV in Mississippi. She was a legal secretary. Two years ago, Ingrid Cowan published her first book, “The Shadow of the Hakenkreuz” her biography of life as a child and teenager during the Hitler years in Berlin, Germany.