SCENE from 1949, Book One of STARLINGS of PEACE Trilogy

ARTWORK - “FLIGHT OVER THE TIERGARTEN”

Except from Chapter 15, “Green Grows from the Ashes”

“… Violet and René strolled along a path in the Tiergarten, a once world-renowned park in Berlin – now recovering from wartime revenge. War had not only destroyed whole city blocks, water and sewage pipes and tunnels, but also hospitals, churches, schools, railways, roads to public services.

War had also destroyed 630 acres of the most beautiful forest and flowered gardens, swan-embellished ponds, walking paths defined by their hedges and trees, fountains and commissioned sculptures …

The French couple walked arm in close-held arm, appreciating lost life regerminating below, struggling to rise above the topsoil …”

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