The Meeting of Anni Adams: The Butterfly of?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" />Luxembourg?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />Lonnie D. StoryACW Press, 2004, $20.95ISBN:9781932124262Born on Armistice Day in 1926 inLuxembourg, Anni Adams enjoyed traveling all over western and centralEuropewith her parents and siblings.By the time she was fourteen, she had been all overGermany,France,Holland,Belgium, and her home duchy.However, on the night ofst1ate Month="5" Day="9" Year="1940">May 9, 1940/st1ate> her wonderful world ended when the Blitzkrieg invaded the small Low Countries of Holland, Belgium, andLuxembourgto use as a spring board to attackFrancefrom inside the Maginot Line.For the next few war years, Anni survived the ordeal of occupation and refugee camp living without knowing much about her family: for instance did her clown prince brother live especially since the Germans used him as an expendable pawn on the Russian front?She came out of the war a stronger person helped somewhat by meeting and marrying American GI Charlie Adams.She adapts to being a war bride stranger in a strange land as she and Charlie raise theAdamsfamily (not of cartoon fame) in American until he passes away in 1998.This fascinating biography enables the reader to see how a teen survived WWII Nazi occupation. Anni does so by mentally going in and out of her cocoon made up of loving family depending on circumstances.She as "the butterfly ofLuxembourg" gives the audience a deep insight into life under the German occupation.The American segment of her journey is also well written and rounds out the bio, but like the early years pales next to the four years under the Nazis.THE MEETING OF ANNIADAMS: THE BUTTERFLY OF LUXEMBOURGis a deep look at how people survive the most harrowing nightmarish experiences caused by inhuman humans.Harriet Klausner