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Helene Munson

Safranesia's Pants

The Kaiser's Brooch

Chiloé Magic



Photo of Chiloe Island courtesy of the author.
Photo of Chiloe Island courtesy of the author.

With a Chilean born father and a German mother, Helene grew up in Brazil, Liberia and Germany. She took her university degrees, a BA , an MA and an MSc in London and Oxford, UK. Most of her adult life was spent in New York and Berlin.  Following the family tradition of traveling  and living in far away, exotic places, she has travelled to over 75 countries. Her longest trip was crewing on a cruise ship to sail four times around Cape Horn as a two stripe officer,  Her family's surviving documents, photos and heirlooms in addition to her own travel mementos feature prominently in her writing. 

Helene is indebted to the Preservation Foundation for publishing some of her early stories as an emerging writer. The positive feedback encouraged her to go on and tackle the more difficult project of the book Boy Soldiers, which was based on her father’s wartime journals as an underage soldier on the Eastern Front. It was published by ‘The History Press’ in the UK. In the US the book has the titles Hitler’s Boy Soldiers and The Feldafing Boys. The Czech rights were sold to Vikand and a German language edition is scheduled to come out from the Osburg Verlag in 2025. She is hoping to use her extensive travel experience to exotic places and exposure to indigenous healing methods in the Amazon region in her second book in progress on overcoming transgenerational trauma. 

It was very well received and is of interest, not just to WWII history buffs, but also those interested in 20th century European history in general and it has a strong memoir element which some readers have said has moved them to tears. You can find comments on Goodreads.

Here is a good podcast by the UK History Hit channel on the book: https://access.historyhit.com/videos/the-boy-who-fought-for-the-nazis

But there is all kinds of other stuff on the internet. The link - https://www.workman.com/products/hitlers-boy-soldiers/hardback

The book is available in all formats, including an audio version from audible, everywhere where books are sold. 

Click here to buy it at Amazon.  The website to connect with the author is: www.helenemunson.com



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