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My book haul from our trip. Two were from the bookstore we visited and the rest were from the stores inside the various museums we visited. I may have gone overboard. But no regrets 😅

Essential and enlightening history. Great read for Women‘s History Month.

This book tells the story of airmen who ended up in German-occupied Yugoslavia in WWII and the rescue mission that recovered them. It‘s so good! The storytelling is cinematic in the best way, and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Major kudos to the Serb villagers who risked their lives to hide all those men from the Nazis.

The Extraordinary Women who helped win World War 11

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Movie: Uncommon Valor

I liked the author‘s narration a better than the many primary source quotes he used to illustrate (and expand on) the things he was talking about. Partly, that may have been the smaller font of the quotes vs my eyes! I sometimes skimmed over some of those quotes. But the amount of detail and research that went into this is amazing. Very much like Cornelius Ryan‘s account of D-Day as a whole (published in 1959).

Several female secret agents worked in WWII France, trained and sent there by the British Special Operations Executive. Many of them gave their lives for a free France. I read a lot about WWII nurses and they were always treated as noncombatants, and while these women were never actual soldiers, they directly and indirectly killed many Nazis, and they were not treated differently from male agents.
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This book damn near killed me. 😭

I read a lot of tough books but this account from a Holocaust child survivor was one of the hardest to take. It's real and raw and utterly heartbreaking.

Take your time and take lots of breaks but I highly recommend

I don't think there has ever been a more powerful paragraph.....

Just yesterday I was so proud of myself getting ready to get all my in progress reads finished and what do I do? Reward myself with two new books....and start one immediately 🤦‍♀️

Is there a support group for this because I think I need it? 🤣