Max’s War — The Story of a Ritchie Boy

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

Max’s War tells the story of one man’s decision to fight back against Hitler. As the Nazis conquer Europe, Jewish teen Max Steiner and his parents flee German persecution to Holland, where Max finds true friends and a life-altering romance. But when Hitler invades in 1940, Max escapes to Chicago, leaving his parents and friends behind. When he learns of his parents’ murder, Max immediately enlists in the US Army. 

After basic training he is sent to Camp Ritchie, Maryland, where he is trained in interrogation and counterintelligence. Deployed to the OSS, Max carries out dangerous missions in Occupied countries. He also interrogates German POWs, especially after D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge, where, despite life-threatening conditions, he elicits critical information about German troop movements. Post-war, he works for the Americans in the German denazification program, bringing him back to his Bavarian childhood hometown of Regensburg. This epic, suspenseful coming of age and war story is author Libby Fischer Hellmann’s tribute to her late father-in-law.

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ Sunday, September 22 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished author and her daughter. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

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Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago a long time ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. She soon began writing historical fiction as well. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few. She has been a finalist twice for the Anthony and the Shamus; and four times for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year. She has also been nominated for the Agatha, the Daphne, and she won the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in 2021. She has won the IPPY, Foreword Magazine’s Indie Awards, and the Readers Choice Award multiple times. Max’s War is her latest novel.

Robin Hellmann, at right, will moderate the program. She is an East Coast based talent manager, currently specializing in the representation of social media content creators. She has been in the talent management field for over 14 years and has worked on many film and television projects, commercials, theatre, print and digital productions across the US. When she is not working, you can usually find her playing with her daughter and two dogs, or binge watching Netflix’s latest and greatest.

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