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Also by Leslie Maitland:

Crossing The Borders Of Time, April 2012
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Crossing The Borders Of Time
Leslie Maitland

A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

Other Press
April 2012
On Sale: April 17, 2012
512 pages
ISBN: 1590514963
EAN: 9781590514962
Kindle: B005EH3EPW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears the farewell letter that Roland had slipped in her pocket: “Whatever the length of our separation, our love will survive it, because it depends on us alone. I give you my vow that whatever the time we must wait, you will be my wife. Never forget, never doubt.”

Five years later – her fierce desire to reunite with Roland first obstructed by war and then, in secret, by her father and brother – Janine would build a new life in New York with a dynamic American husband. That his obsession with Ayn Rand tormented their marriage was just one of the reasons she never ceased yearning to reclaim her lost love.

Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mother’s accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist’s vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter’s pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.

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Re: Crossing The Borders Of Time

I would love to read this book, particularly because it's a true story. Both my parents were born in Germany, one in 1918 and the other in 1919. My paternal grandfather lost a leg in the war; my maternal grandfather got through it with no major injury. I somehow feel connected to this time.
(Sigrun Schulz 4:30am May 14, 2012)