The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

Gwen Strauss

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

Gwen Strauss

336 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional medium-paced

Description

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back t...

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