Apple Pie and Strudel Girls: The World Changed for Six Girls Living a World Apart — Barbara Celeste McCloskey

Change was in the wind for three teenage American girls and three German girls. Their lives would soon become something they never dreamed. Their two countries would face off in a bitter world war that would alter their lives forever. In Germany, Heidi, Leisel, and Marta rise out of the ashes of extreme poverty to prosperity. Marta travels to Paris; Leisel stays at home and marries a young Nazi, while Heidi becomes a nanny in Poland. The American girls become more independent than they ever wanted. Rosie marries at 18, has a baby and then must say goodbye to her soul mate. Donna Jean will sing her way through Europe and the South Pacific in the USO. Josie joins the Army Nurse Corps and sees the ugliness of war in the field hospitals of North Africa and Italy. They all live in a world that had no future.