Wanda from A Season to Read recently reviewed Coventry by Helen Humphreys. Here’s an excerpt:
Centering around the evening events of November 14, 1940 when Coventry fell to the raids of German bombers, this story unfolds in two voices, those of Harriet Marsh and Maeve Fisher. Through their memories of another war and their experiences of [...]
Review: COVENTRY by Helen Humphreys [A Season to Read]
Reviews: ALL BUT MY LIFE and THE HOURS AFTER by Gerda Weissmann Klein [Magistra Mater]
Carol from Magistra Mater recently reviewed All But My Life andThe Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War’s Aftermath, both by Gerda Weissman Klein.
Here’s an excerpt from her review of All But My Life:
All But My Life begins at 9:10 a.m. on September 3, 1939, when the Nazis invaded the Weissmann’s home town [...]
Review: I ESCAPED FROM AUSCHWITZ by Rudolf Vrba [The Bookworm's Hideout]
Jessica from The Bookworm’s Hideout recently reviewed I Escaped From Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba. Here’s an excerpt:
I Escaped From Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba is the first-person account of one young man’s imprisonment in, survival of, and ultimate escape from a Nazi death camp. It is an amazing, engrossing, heartbreaking, and uplifting true story. Anyone who [...]
Review: OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson [Scrappy Cat]
Cheryl from Scrappy Cat recently reviewed Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson. Here’s an excerpt:
This is the story of 67 year old Trond Sander, who has decided to spend the remaining years of his life alone in a remote cabin far from civilization.
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Review: RESISTANCE by Anita Shreve [A Book Sanctuary]
Tracey from A Book Sanctuary recently reviewed Resistance by Anita Shreve. Here’s a snippet:
Near the Belgian village of Delahaut at the end of 1943, a B-17 bomber crash lands. With German soldiers heading towards the scene, it is a race against time to save the American pilot Ted Brice, found semi-conscious by a 10 year [...]
Review: HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford [A Comfy Chair and a Good Book]
Jeanette from A Comfy Chair and a Good Book recently reviewed Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. Here’s an excerpt:
This book just drew me into the setting of Seattle during the 1940s and the internment of American citizens who were of Japanese decent during WWII. This book, in fact, made me [...]
Review: AUSTERLITZ by W.G. Sebald [A Book Sanctuary]
Tracey from A Book Sanctuary recently reviewed Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald. Here’s an excerpt:
The Austerlitz of this haunting story is Jacques Austerlitz, who our narrator meets by chance in a waiting room at Antwerp train station in Belgium. They strike up a conversation or rather, Austerlitz speaks and the narrator listens, about the history [...]
Review: AN OBSOLETE HONOR by Helena P. Schrader [Diary of an Eccentric]
I recently posted a review of An Obsolete Honor: A Story of the German Resistance to Hitler by Helena P. Schrader on my book review blog, Diary of an Eccentric. Here’s an excerpt:
An Obsolete Honor: A Story of the German Resistance to Hitler is a must-read for anyone who mistakenly believes all Germans sided [...]
Review: TAMAR by Mal Peet [Writing Wrongs]
Charity from Writing Wrongs recently posted a review of Tamar by Mal Peet. Here’s an excerpt:
In the fall of 1944, Tamar and Dart, two Dutch SOE operatives, parachute into Holland. Tamar has the thankless task of organizing the fractured Dutch resistance. Dart is his wireless operator, a job with the average lifespan of three months [...]
