On #Holocaust Remembrance Day as well as the week that Lunar New Year begins, I am starting this very important book by Iris Chang which details the massacre of Nanking by Japanese forces during #WWII. Much less well-known than the genocide in Europe, but no less horrifying.
pick#Libby #HistoricalFiction #WWII
15-year-old courageous & determined Louisa Adair takes a position caring for an elderly German woman in a small Scottish village during WWII. A German pilot purposely lands in the village. He meets up with Louisa at the village pub & boarding house where he hides a key for her to find.In the meantime,Louisa discovers an Enigma machine that translates German code.With expertise of her elderly companion,she unravels⬇️
When I started looking into the history of these books and went onto the Internet to search for the names I found written inside them, the search results kept indicating Auschwitz. Every time the trail led to Auschwitz. We can‘t give people their lives back, but maybe we can give them something else. A book, and maybe a memory.
One of the few interviews by Anne Frank‘s father.
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#foodandlit #Netherlands @Catsandbooks
If it‘s Tuesday, it must be Hilo. Well, most weeks anyway. The usual airport breakfast & hanging in the lounge until boarding. I finally started this one for #FoodAndLit #Netherlands. It‘s been on my Kindle TBR for a while now, so this is a good excuse to get ‘er read. 🇳🇱
so-soI am having difficulty in rating this book. It is a frank look at the unexamined history of those who collaborated with the Nazis in France and their lives, the secrets they carried and the impact of that history on their family. My problem stems from the fact that this is supposedly a fictional novel based on the author‘s family and at times it read more like non-fiction than fiction. It is almost as though the author couldn‘t commit. ⬇️
