The Upside of Hunger: A True Tale

the magnificently told story of a man who triumphed over the limitations of history to become his greatest self." Fans of , , and will enjoy this riveting true story of history, suspense, and beating the odds. The life he was born into was too small for Adam Baumann. But would escaping Hungary cost him everything? Growing up in an between the great wars, Adam couldn't remember a time he hadn't yearned for more excitement, more freedom, and often more food. Locked up for theft at age nine, Adam's life took one tumultuous turn after another From a 12-year-old runaway searching for food, to a 15-year-old shivering in the mud of a frozen foxhole on the , Adam's survival hung in the balance. When , Adam was catapulted into a series of captures and while Europe reeled from the final destruction and horror of WW2. Never standing still, Adam struggled through war-torn landscapes to , and began to build a life from the ashes, until the results of a at an American Embassy in Germany changed the course of his future forever.