I found this book really interesting and very enjoyable. It was the story of World War 2 told from the perspective of the two different authors, Alfons Heck and Helen Waterford. Alfons Heck was a young German lad during the war and he was very active in the Hitler Youth program. He was extremely supportive of Hitler and was caught up in all the anti Semitic propaganda. He believed that Germans truly were a superior race and deserved to have what they wanted. Helen on the other hand was a Jew who was just trying to escape the war safely with her husband and daughter. They moved to Holland and they were safe there for a little while. But the impending doom coming from the Germans forced Helen and her husband to send their daughter Doris to live with a dutch family where she would be safe. Over the course of the book we follow the paths of each character and get to see the effects of the war from two different points of view. Eventually both of the authors ended up meeting in America and traveled around telling their stories and ultimately writing a book. However the fact that they now know each other invalidates the title of this book, if they have a meeting point, their paths can not truly be parallel. That's my only complaint.
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