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Annelies by David Gillham

January 25, 2019

annelies

As much as I love historical fiction, there are some people who should be left to history rather than brought back in fiction. After reading David Gillham’s Annelies I believe Anne Frank is one of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Europe, historical fiction, Holocaust, Viking, WWII

Mischling

September 8, 2016

mischling

  It’s hard to imagine there is a place more horrible than Auschwitz but Affinity Konar has found the horror within the horror by setting her novel Mischling in Josef Mengele’s lab. Pearl and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, Europe, historical fiction, Lee Boudreaux Books, literary, WWII

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

November 25, 2015

  Within the first 15 pages of Savage Continent by Keith Lowe I learned that by the end of World War II: The Germans had destroyed 93% of Warsaw’s buildings 18-20 million Germans were ... Read More...

8 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: Europe, history, St. Martin's Press, WWII

The Book of Aron

May 4, 2015

book of aron

Set in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland The Book of Aron is, like any Holocaust novel, difficult reading. But what makes it so, is not graphic depictions of violence against Jews it is the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Europe, historical fiction, Holocaust, Knopf, literary, WWII

Hausfrau

March 23, 2015

hausfrau

Anna is an American, married, mother of three who lives in a suburb of Zurich with her Swiss husband. Despite her efforts she cannot acclimate to Switzerland and exists in a state of low-level ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, Europe, marriage, Random House

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