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    The War Girls
    The War Girls
    The War Girls
    Audiobook16 hours

    The War Girls

    Written by V.S. Alexander

    Narrated by Kelli Tager

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    It's not just a thousand miles that separates Hanna Majewski from her younger sister, Stefa. There is another gulf-between the traditional Jewish ways that Hanna chose to leave behind in Warsaw, and her new, independent life in London. But as autumn of 1940 draws near, Germany begins a savage aerial bombing campaign in England, killing and displacing tens of thousands. Hanna, who narrowly escapes death, is recruited as a spy in an undercover operation that sends her back to her war-torn homeland.

    In Hanna's absence, her parents, sister, and brother have been driven from their comfortable apartment into the Warsaw Ghetto. Sealed off from the rest of the city, the Ghetto becomes a prison for nearly half a million Jews, struggling to survive amid starvation, disease, and the constant threat of deportation to Treblinka. Once a pretty and level-headed teenager, Stefa is now committed to the Jewish resistance. Together, she, Hanna, and Janka, a family friend living on the Aryan side of the city, form a trio called The War Girls. Against overwhelming odds and through heartbreak they will fight to rescue their loved ones, finding courage through sisterhood to keep hope alive . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJul 26, 2022
    ISBN9781696607582
    The War Girls
    Author

    V.S. Alexander

    V. S. Alexander is an ardent student of history and the arts and loves writing historical fiction with strong women protagonists. The author of several novels and short stories, Alexander’s first novel for Kensington Publishing was The Magdalen Girls, an Amazon best seller, set in 1962 Dublin. The author lives in South Florida where summer is never far away.

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      It had really good parts but over all was not my favor. There were some intense parts that made want to keep reading but there were some others that I had to push myself to get through them. Overall not my cup of tea of book, it is a book that show how strong a woman can be when we follow our values and our heart but it leves too many questions unanswered, like what happened with their mom, the in-laws, Karol, Stepha and Daniel, Emanuel, yanka, and the story of Hanna a Philip was just too quick and left for really the last chapter. I think it could have been better.