Gretel's Story: A Young Woman's Secret War Against the Nazis by Wachtel, Gretel, and Strachan, Claudia - 2012

Globe Pequot Press, The, 2012. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lyons Press, 2012-08-07. Paperback. Very Good. 0.9000 8.2000 5.0000.

Lyons Press, 2012-08-07. Paperback. Good.

Lyons Press, 8/7/2012 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.9000 in x 8.2000 in x 5.0000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Lyons Press, 2012. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. The spellbinding account of the life of a young woman in Hamburg during the Second World War. Gretel Wachtel bore witness to the disappearance of her best friend during Kristallnacht, the infamous night of atrocities against the Jewish population in 1938, and during the war she endured the constant bombing of her beloved Hamburg by the Allies, surviving the firestorm caused by Operation Gomorrah. An unguarded anti-Nazi comment resulted in her being forced to work in an ammunition factory, but she didn't lose her desire to fight the totalitarian regime. She married a resistance fighter, helped the local priest to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo and hid her Jewish doctor in the cellar of her house. Called up to serve as a typist in the Wehrmacht, Gretel allied herself with the resistance, passing on secrets learned from her work sending and receiving messages via the Enigma encryption machine. Finally arrested by the Gestapo in 1945 and taken… Read More

Lyons Press, 2012-08-07. Paperback. New.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

Lyons Press, 2012-08-07. Paperback. Like New.

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