The Heart Mender

If you like WWII history, you’ll like The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews. The author was digging up the roots of a tree at his Gulf shore home when he came across a sealed can with three pictures, eight buttons, a ring, medal and a badge. Curious about what he has found Andy starts researching, searching online and visiting people who lived in the area during WWII trying to find out more information about them. Andy Andrews has thoroughly researched the events that happened in this period and includes them in this story. He breaks the story into three parts, telling the first and third parts in first person and the second part in third person.

A true story of German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico, The Heart Mender is an engaging story of second chances. Left for dead, German U-boat officer, Josef Landermann is found on the beach by a bitter American widow, Helen Mason. Helen, who lost her husband in a Nazi air-raid in London were he was volunteering, and Josef, whose family was killed in an Allied bombing in Germany, struggle with bitterness, forgiveness, loss and reconciliation in a period of time filled with anger and suspicion.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson Publishers to review at booksneeze.com. You can find out how to receive books to review at http://BookSneeze.com> and more information on The Heart Mender at http://www.andyandrews.com/theheartmender/.