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Siobhan’s latest novel (published in 2021) merges a modern-day granddaughter Charlotte who discovers a picture of the recently deceased grandmother, Elena with another young woman from when both served in the WWII Italian Resistance. Intrigued by the picture and puzzled by her grandmother’s cryptic words…

The Girl From Venice by Siobhan Daiko

October 16, 2021

Richard Breitman’s account of U.S. Foreign Service Senior Consul Raymond Geist’s heroic efforts at warning FDR and other high U.S. officials of the evil of Hitler’s grandiose plans to conquer and dominate the world and Geist’s efforts from the mid to late 1930’s through the…

Review of Richard Breitman’s The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

September 7, 2019

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WWII, the Nazi’s, the Resistance, and Vichy France come alive in Aaron Rockett’s Fake Papers: Survival Lessons from Grandma’s Escape. When I first started reading Fake Papers, I thought that it was a series of short accounts. It is not. Rockett alternates between eras, the…

Review of Fake Papers by Aaron Rockett

July 6, 2019

If you like WWII fiction set in the German-occupied areas or Holocaust concentration camp-Resistance fiction, Solahütte is one to read. It came out before Heather Morris’ debut release The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Both books are similiar though Morris’ book is a cross between true crime…

WWII Fiction — Review of Steven Donahue’s Solahütte

June 16, 2019

Based on a true story, Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz tells the story of Lale, who in 1942, traveled from Slovakia to Prague (now in the separate Czech Republic) and then with several hundred other Jews found himself being transported a month later…

Review of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

March 10, 2019

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WWII has fueled many books. Some would say that the WWII has consumed them by fire and in a way it did. For some the consummation was not total; for those lucky souls, they were able to move on, not forget about the war, Hitler,…

Twin Lives: A Review of Irma Joubert’s The Girl From The Train

December 23, 2015

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Posts tagged ‘Nazi’

The Girl From Venice by Siobhan Daiko

Review of Richard Breitman’s The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

Review of Fake Papers by Aaron Rockett

WWII Fiction — Review of Steven Donahue’s Solahütte

Review of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Twin Lives: A Review of Irma Joubert’s The Girl From The Train