Tag: World War II

  • REVIEW of A Question of Betrayal (Elena Standish #2) by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of A Question of Betrayal (Elena Standish #2) by Anne Perry

    See my review for a new spy thriller by Anne Perry set during the prelude to WWII.

  • REVIEW of The Queen’s Secret: A Novel of England’s World War II Queen by Karen Harper

    REVIEW of The Queen’s Secret: A Novel of England’s World War II Queen by Karen Harper

    When David abdicated the English throne to be with “that woman” Wallis Simpson, his stammering brother George VI (“Bertie”) was thrust onto the royal stage. Bertie rose to the occasion, partnering with Winston Churchill to help win the war against the Germans. But what some might not know is that behind the king of England…

  • REVIEW of Death in Focus (Elena Standish #1) by Anne Perry

    REVIEW of Death in Focus (Elena Standish #1) by Anne Perry

    In the days of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a young photographer named Elena Standish travels to Italy to photograph a convention. After meeting a personable young man named Ian, they travel together towards France, only to be thrown into a frightening world of espionage, assassination, and events that seem to hurtle headlong toward the…

  • REVIEW of The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    REVIEW of The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    Young German midwife Anke Hoff is apprehended in the streets of Berlin, separated from her parents and siblings, and taken to a work camp because of her family’s anti-Reich sympathies. At the work camp, she uses her skills to deliver babies–many of whom die only hours later from drowning or exposure to the elements–and give…

  • REVIEW of Past Encounters by Deborah Swift

    REVIEW of Past Encounters by Deborah Swift

    Rhoda and Peter are drifting apart. Engaged before Peter enlisted in army, they were separated for six years while World War II raged in Europe. For Peter, the war was a body-crushing and soul-crushing event. Captured almost immediately by the Germans, he spent years in a prisoner work camp, reduced to skin and bone, witnessing…

  • REVIEW of The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn

    REVIEW of The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn

    Two women. Two wars. Two stories linked by the loss that both women suffered. The Alice Network tells the story of Eve Gardiner, a female spy during the First World War, and Charlie St. Clair, a young American woman looking for her cousin who disappeared at the end of the Second World War. After Charlie’s…