Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The Secret Letter


I started the Secret Letter just after I finished the lost Vintage....one more WW II book.  And one night I arrived at the part that is going to be upsetting....I can just tell ....and turned the book off for almost a month....I am picking it back up tonight...no golf....huge rain storm that we need very much. And I have a knitting project that is almost finished.   

Germany, 1939. A tumbledown farmhouse, on the outskirts of a close-knit village in the heart of the rolling hills of Bavaria. A once happy family home torn apart by Nazi rule. And one young girl who refuses to give up on what she believes in…
London, 2018: When ninety-four-year-old Imogen receives a letter addressed to her in neat, unfamiliar handwriting, she notices the postmark is stamped from Germany - and it sends shivers down her spine…
Germany, 1939: Thirteen-year-old Magda is devastated by the loss of her best friend, shy and gentle Lotte, cruelly snatched from her and sent to a concentration camp – the Star of David sewn on her faded, brown coat. As the Nazi’s power takes hold, Magda realizes she’s not like the other girls in her German village - she hates the fanatical new rules of the Hitler Youth. So Magda secretly joins The White Rose Movement and begins to rebel against the oppressive, frightening world around her.
But when an English bomber pilot crashes in a field near Magda’s home she is faced with an impossible choice: to risk the safety of her family or to save a stranger and make a difference in the devastating war that has claimed the lives of so many. Little does she know, her actions will have the power to change the life of another girl, on the other side of enemy lines, forever…
Inspired by a true story, this is a heart-wrenching, unputdownable and absolutely unforgettable tale of the strength of human kindness in a time of unimaginable heartbreak. 

I finished the book last night.  It was one of my favorites of the WW II books.  One of those books that everything gets wrapped up in a satisfactory way....but the author said at the end she had based the book on real experiences of real people.  A little contrived ....but I really did like the book.


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