Publisher's Synopsis
Set in Germany during WWII, "A Side Effect of War" tells the story of three young people and how the war influences their lives. Gerhardt Kramer is a frightened fifteen year-old boy who is forced to work in a concentration camp and who must face his fears head-on. Sally Grünwald a sixteen year-old who is forced to flee Nazi Germany, and who later finds the courage to become a member of an underground network. And finally, Luise Odenthal, a hardened Nazi soldier who finds, quite unexpectedly, that she is not as unfeeling as she thinks. Read the novel to find just how the "side effects of war" change each of these lives.