The Lives of Lee Miller
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Lee Miller: 1927: New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Condé Nast,...
The Half Wolf
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Mate, family, pack, home… can Quinn and Kellan have it all? Quinn grew up feeling out of place...
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The Paris Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery, #7)
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Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she’s working...
Garden of Ashes
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It’s the one place no rustler ever wants to end up. Having survived Rondo’s destruction,...
To Night Owl From Dogfish
Meg Wolitzer and Holly Goldberg Sloan
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From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and...
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Against the Darkness (Cimmerian Moon #1)
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This one time, at band camp…aliens invaded earth. Sounds like a bad riff on an old joke, doesn’t...
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The Secret Midwife
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London, 1995: When on the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs...
Merissa (11848 KP) rated A Lightness in My Soul in Books
Jan 18, 2021 (Updated Aug 7, 2023)
Just like the British evacuated their children, so did the Germans, although not everyone was put into homes, but camps instead. This is a heartbreaking and harrowing tale, told in the first person, as Arthur goes to a KLV camp. You stay with him as he begins to question just what is going on, then the Americans arrive, and you stay with him in the aftermath of that.
The conditions Arthur has to face are very well-written, managing to give the reader the horror and hopelessness of the situation without making it gruesome or unnecessarily violent.
For anyone with an interest in the history of WWII, especially if you are interested in the German perspective, then this is definitely one for your bookshelves. A one-sitting, engrossing read highly recommended by me.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Jan 18, 2021
The Girl from Bologna (Girls from the Italian Resistance #3) by Siobhan Daiko
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Bologna, Italy, 1944, and the streets are crawling with German soldiers. Nineteen-year-old Leila...
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