Don’t expect a rip roaring WWII adventure full of blowing up bridges and railroad tracks, carefully planned assassinations or harrowing escapes from the Nazis. Having read a number of WWII nonfiction books, the historical accuracy is probably the best I’ve read within the subgenre of historical fiction. She is a composite of Jewish members of the Red Orchestra. Sara Weitz is a Jewish-German literature student and enrolled in Harnack’s lectures. Their stories are factual and both are members of the Red Orchestra, a resistance cell operating in Berlin.
Mildred Harnack is an American intellectual married to a German and Greta Kuckhoff is a hopeful German writer formerly enrolled at the University of Wisconsin where she met the Harnacks.
From 1929 through 1946, three women look on in horror as the Nazi Party rises and comes into power.
This is my first experience with Chiaverini and I am impressed.
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