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The German Woman
by Paul Griner
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During the second World War, Kate, the English widow of a German doctor, and Claus, an American of German lineage, test each other's loyalties as they fall in love. Claus may be working as a British spy, and Kate may still have ties to the Germans, but their feelings for one another erase all borders. However, in times of war, emotions are often eclipsed by hard realities. Fans of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst will love this sweeping romance, which takes on epic proportions against the battlefields of World War II.
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9781423391999,
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Brilliance Audio,
2009
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9780547055220,
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2009
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Mariner Books,
2010
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"Datelines, specific to both time and place, usher readers through sections of this fine novel, with its grim wealth of indelible images and plot built around unanswered questions and dissemblances."
Customer Reviews
on Aug 5 2009, killswan said:
"This is a novel about loyalty and its enemies during two world wars. We begin at Germany's collapsed eastern front under British occupation. German medical staffs move randomly back toward the heartland while Reds, Whites, Cossacks, Czechs and other terrorist gangs commit atrocities. Unforgettable scenes of the early months of Germany's collapse and chaos before 1933 and the Nazi regime. When governments do not do enough to protect their citizens, is married love an adequate substitute? *** Meanwhile in the USA several American screenwriters are convicted under a new treason law for creating an anti-British documentary film. One of them is first imprisoned, then forced into exile: to Britain where he resurfaces in 1944 Britain as a double agent in the pay of a thoroughly incompetent British counter-intelligence agency. By days he writes propaganda films. By nights his cover is as an air raid warden. Falling in love with a surviving racially English, married German nurse survivor of World War I, our new hero is given reasons by his government handlers to suspect she is a German spy. Can their sudden love survive the tug of war between competing German and British governments? *** The second part of this gripping novel brings to life London under attack by Hitler's last gasp secret weapons, the V-Bombs, "buzz bombs," early cruise missiles. The London populace finds this final indignity almost worse than the 1940 blitz. *** This is a novel of loyalty: to nations and to persons and the uncertain reciprocity loyalty gets in either case. Enjoy! -OOO-"
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