The German Woman
by Paul Griner
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0547055226
- ISBN 13
- 9780547055220
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This riveting war story introduces us to beautiful Kate Zweig, the English widow of a German surgeon, and Claus Murphy, an exiled American with German rootstwo lovers with complicated loyalties. In 1918, Kate and her husband,Horst, are taken for spies by Russian soldiers and forced to flee their field hospital on the eastern front, barely escaping with their lives. Years later, in London during the Nazis’ V-1 reign of terror, Claus spends his days making propaganda films and his nights as a British spy, worn down by the war and his own many secrets. When Claus meets the intriguing Kate Zweig, he finds himself powerfully drawn to hereven after evidence surfaces that she might not be exactly who she seems. As the war hurtles to a violent end, Claus must define where his own loyalties lie, whether he can make a difference in the warand what might be gained by taking a leap of faith with Kate. Echoing Pat Barker’s spare power and Sebastian Faulks’s sweeping historical sagas, and reminiscent of the haunting romance of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, The German Woman takes us inside the two world wars that defined the twentieth century and the hidden histories of two unforgettable characters whose love story will haunt readers’ hearts and minds.
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This is a novel about loyalty and its enemies during two world wars. We begin at Germany's collapsed eastern front under British occupation. German medical staffs move randomly back toward the heartland while Reds, Whites, Cossacks, Czechs and other terrorist gangs commit atrocities. Unforgettable scenes of the early months of Germany's collapse and chaos before 1933 and the Nazi regime. When governments do not do enough to protect their citizens, is married love an adequate substitute? *** Meanwhile in the USA several American screenwriters are convicted under a new treason law for creating an anti-British documentary film. One of them is first imprisoned, then forced into exile: to Britain where he resurfaces in 1944 Britain as a double agent in the pay of a thoroughly incompetent British counter-intelligence agency. By days he writes propaganda films. By nights his cover is as an air raid warden. Falling in love with a surviving racially English, married German nurse survivor of World War I, our new hero is given reasons by his government handlers to suspect she is a German spy. Can their sudden love survive the tug of war between competing German and British governments? *** The second part of this gripping novel brings to life London under attack by Hitler's last gasp secret weapons, the V-Bombs, "buzz bombs," early cruise missiles. The London populace finds this final indignity almost worse than the 1940 blitz. *** This is a novel of loyalty: to nations and to persons and the uncertain reciprocity loyalty gets in either case. Enjoy! -OOO-
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- Title
- The German Woman
- Author
- Paul Griner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0547055226
- ISBN 13
- 9780547055220
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
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