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Historical fiction about women we barely knew or did not know. Jennifer Chiaverini grows stronger as she continues to write. This book is about people before and during W. W. II who were involved in doing all they could to put a devistating cog in the Hitler machine. The atrocities that were committed, how these women, friends and families went about collecting and sharing dangerous information. Their belief in good and shock at the evil they witnessed. There is much I have never heard since being born during that war, it wasn't talked about much at all. I never heard about the Resistance in Germany, both natives of that country and Americans who were also involved. I am glad to know this now. It would be good for all people to read and know what happened and prayerfully let all prejudice die a sure and deserved end in our world.
Helpful Score: 1
This is the first Chiaverini book I've read and I would not hesitate to read another. Chiaverini created realistic characters who were ordinary women who joined together to create a resistance cell in opposition of the fascism that was spreading through Berlin prior to and during WW2. It was a realistic glimpse of the destruction of civil liberties and atrocities that eventually led to a totalitarian state.
Very upsetting because of all the similarities between what happened there and what is happening in America now. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and America seems headed in that direction. Be afraid... be very afraid!
Very upsetting because of all the similarities between what happened there and what is happening in America now. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and America seems headed in that direction. Be afraid... be very afraid!
