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Great POW escapes contained in new family biography
Joseph Gatins’s non-fiction family biography is creating quite a stir in certain reader
circles. He will discuss and sign the book, We Were Dancing on a Volcano:
Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family, 1849-1989, at
Timpson Creek Gallery, 1-3 p.m., Saturday, November 14, as part of the ART
TOUR. Books and refreshments will be available.
His straightforward and unsentimental memoir captures readers with his father’s
multiple escapes from German POW camps in World War II, culminating in a final,
successful escape only made possible by the unflagging help of his mother, who
worked closely with the French Resistance in Paris.
Richly illustrated with 34 pages of photos and illustrations, Gatins paints a compelling
portrait of family that also does not shy from the “fault lines” that vexed many of his
forebears. A retired newspaper reporter and editor, the author unearthed archival data
-- from baptismal and death certificates to courthouse filings, from U.S., French and
Nazi military records to international Red Cross POW camp inspection reports, as well
as a treasure-trove of private correspondence, including telling post-Word War II love
letters and the false ID papers his father used to craft a final escape from Berlin. He
also found useful information in U.S. Reconstruction-era documents and government
citizenship and immigration files.
Readers also find this a history of family that left its mark on Atlanta, New York, Bogotá,
Paris and the tiny fishing village of Killybegs in County Donegal, Ireland, where the clan
originated. As noted by John C. Inscoe, editor of The New Georgia Encyclopedia,
Gatins chronicles their dramatic ups and downs with verve and insight, crafting a
narrative that includes the adventures – and misadventures – of the original Irish
immigrants and succeeding generations at times of national and international
upheaval, including those of his remarkable French grandmother.
For more information and
excerpts from the book, click on:
http://josephgatins.blogspot.com/
We Were Dancing on a Volcano:
Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-
Joseph Gatins’s non-fiction family biography is creating quite a stir in certain reader
circles. He will discuss and sign the book, We Were Dancing on a Volcano:
Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-Crossed Atlanta Family, 1849-1989, at
Timpson Creek Gallery, 1-3 p.m., Saturday, November 14, as part of the ART
TOUR. Books and refreshments will be available.
His straightforward and unsentimental memoir captures readers with his father’s
multiple escapes from German POW camps in World War II, culminating in a final,
successful escape only made possible by the unflagging help of his mother, who
worked closely with the French Resistance in Paris.
Richly illustrated with 34 pages of photos and illustrations, Gatins paints a compelling
portrait of family that also does not shy from the “fault lines” that vexed many of his
forebears. A retired newspaper reporter and editor, the author unearthed archival data
-- from baptismal and death certificates to courthouse filings, from U.S., French and
Nazi military records to international Red Cross POW camp inspection reports, as well
as a treasure-trove of private correspondence, including telling post-Word War II love
letters and the false ID papers his father used to craft a final escape from Berlin. He
also found useful information in U.S. Reconstruction-era documents and government
citizenship and immigration files.
Readers also find this a history of family that left its mark on Atlanta, New York, Bogotá,
Paris and the tiny fishing village of Killybegs in County Donegal, Ireland, where the clan
originated. As noted by John C. Inscoe, editor of The New Georgia Encyclopedia,
Gatins chronicles their dramatic ups and downs with verve and insight, crafting a
narrative that includes the adventures – and misadventures – of the original Irish
immigrants and succeeding generations at times of national and international
upheaval, including those of his remarkable French grandmother.
For more information and
excerpts from the book, click on:
http://josephgatins.blogspot.com/
We Were Dancing on a Volcano:
Bloodlines and Fault Lines of a Star-
