Prologue
There had been a time, a time in his life when he had been a doctor, working at one of the best hospitals in Germany. Born 1907 as the third and youngest son of a German butcher and seamstress from Munich, Bruno had lead an ordinary life. When he was 21, he married the most beautiful woman in the world: Greta Schmidt and went on to have a daughter Madelyn with her. Settling into the role of a father had been easy for him, the role in itself suiting Bruno.
Of course, that was all over now.
Shattered into thousands of pieces and, like sand, those times had slipped through his fingers until nothing but his broken body and mind remained. Uncertain as to his future, he had given up hope, allowed his resolved to live to escape him. He was merely a shell now, a shell of the man who he had once been. A man who had once been a doctor, the son of a butcher and seamstress. A man who had once been a husband and a father. Who had once been a man.
