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The Girl from Krakow
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
It's 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store - marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live. She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war. Living by her wits among the Germans as their conquests turn to defeat, she seeks a way to prevent the inevitable doom of Nazism from making her one of its last victims. Can her passion and resolve outlast the most powerful evil that Europe has ever seen?
In an epic saga that spans from Paris in the '30s and Spain's Civil War to Moscow, Warsaw, and the heart of Nazi Germany, The Girl from Krakow follows one woman's battle for survival as entire nations are torn apart, never to be the same.
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- The Curator
- 07-09-20
Well written and moving
It must be difficult to write about the horror of Europe in the 1940s without being mawkish or getting into misery porn but this book does it very well. The characters are enjoyable and believable in a world where so much was unbelievable that almost anything became believable. The end is a bit contrived for my taste but overall it’s very well done.
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- Karen Croan
- 14-09-19
Good interesting read
I enjoyed this book & it gave an interesting take on a horrible period in Europe’s history. I liked that the characters were all flawed but still likeable. I agree with some of my fellow readers that the heroine was a little too lucky, a little too often & at some points it seemed to suggest that Poland was full of Jewish people successfully flying under the radar which seemed unlikely. However, I thought that the description of the heroine’s journey into the getto was brilliant and harrowing & the depiction of the Jewish gangs & criminals capitalising on the plight of their fellow Jews whilst depressing was all too believable. There is no situation that some other ghastly human can’t make worse.... unfortunately.
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- Ms L Collins
- 13-02-19
Wonderful story
Clear, considerations of the individual, well written
Good plot and geographical correct
Would recommend this book to anyone, helps to explain how awful things were.
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- YogaGirl
- 29-10-16
amazing book
I loved it, well written with real characters and gripping plot. Couldn't put it away.
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- Ms. M. JUEL-BEER
- 14-01-16
Lessons for modern day
Not my usual type of book. But I was hooked.
Now to buy a hard copy.
Unfortunately so many of the undercurrents in the story seem present in modern day Europe which makes it easier to relate to the characters.
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- M. Griffiths
- 20-10-17
action packed ww2 epic
Enjoyable if rather improbable story capturing much of ww2 in Poland. I didn't love the narrator who seemed to struggle with characterisation.
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