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Bettie Denny is available for presentations, book groups and on-line events.

 

A cache of discovered documents. a nail-biting escape. a daughter in search of answers.

 
 
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Recipient 2019 IPPY Award 

Portland history with a novel twist! Read excerpts and more

Library Writers Project Winner 2019

An uplifting, unpredictable journey.
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Praise for In the Wake of Madness: I define a good non-fiction story as one that pulls me in so completely, I forget how everything turned out (the North won the Civil War, the Titanic sunk, etc.). This was that kind of story. I know this family survived but the writing was so vivid, I held my breath on every page. Really a fabulous book! – Victoria Alexander, #1 NYT bestselling author

I felt as if I were part of each narrow escape, always on the run, seeking those elusive papers, aching for family members tossed across the globe. Drawing from an unbelievable wealth of family letters and documents, the author ably embeds her family’s saga within unfolding world events, revealing chilling parallels to our world today. – Tilman Ochs, retired English teacher and local history expert, Kronberg, Germany

Prepare for a stirring journey! Bettie Lennett Denny has offered a historian’s eye for detail of her own family’s escape from Nazi Germany. It is a travelogue that takes stops through Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Chile, Palestine, Russia and America. With photographs, letters and documents, you will experience what maniacal destruction the Nazis wrought through one family over a span of generations and continents. – Daniel Seymour, author of the award-winning From Auschwitz with Love (2022)

Denny offers the reader an echo from the past, reminding us of the human costs that come with instability and conflict. – Colonel Eric Knapp, Instructor, U.S. National War College