The USA Today Best Seller.
An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and My Name is Eva will love.
Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke’s work is noticed, she is chosen for a task … campmates and their newborns alive.
But when Anke’s work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Führer’s child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife.
Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?
*Published in the UK as A Woman of War*
Mandy Robotham’s highly awaited next book, The Secret Messenger, is out now.
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Loved this book Couldn’t have predicted the ending if I tried! Also makes me want to find actual biographies on Eva Braun!
One of the best books I have read so far. I will read more from this Author. I was sad to see it end.
I don’t usually go for books that alter historical facts, but this was a great read!
I realize this is a work of fiction, but if Germany in WWII was like this book depicts, it was a horrible time and place to live!!
I enjoyed this book, understanding it’s fiction. A different perspective on the Holocaust.
A different view of Germany in WWII. Interesting
This is one of those books that deserves more than 5 stars. This is a very well written story of Anke, a German midwife who was sent to a work camp during World War II because she did not follow the rules at her hospital regarding the Jewish women who gave birth. She started at the work camp as a seamstress making uniforms for the SS. She delivered a baby while at work and they transferred her to an area where she could work as a midwife which is what she loved to do. One day, she is called in and told she will be leaving to attend to Eva Braun, Adolph Hitler’s mistress, who is pregnant. Anke goes to the mountains to attend Eva Braun and from there a lot of very interesting things happen. There was a lot of pregnancy/birth/midwifery details in this story that were very accurate and realistic. This is the first book for this author and she did a fantastic job. I very highly recommend this wonderful World War II story. Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC of this great book in exchange for an honest review.