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City of Women - David R. Gillham, Suzanne Bertish
City of Women
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3.00 10
Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9781611761276 (1611761271)
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
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Toni
Toni rated it
5.0 "The City of Women", by David R. Gillham
This is dark and unsettling story that provides an eye opening glimpse into what life may have been for women living in Berlin during the hostilities of WW11. Set in 1943, the city is void of men, most have gone to fight on two fronts and Berlin has become a city of women, children and elderly. This...
richardabbott
richardabbott rated it
3.0 Dreary like a bombing raid
City of Women, by David Gillham, was another three star book for me. It is a second world war book, but set rather unusually in 1943 Berlin. The title comes from the fact that most men of military age were away serving in the armed forces, mostly out east in the Soviet Union. Despite this, there s...
The City Of Invention
The City Of Invention rated it
5.0 A Tightly-Plotted, Intelligent Thriller
Set in 1943, when Hitler's plans are finally beginning to unravel, City Of Women is the story of Sigrid a middle-aged woman whose husband is fighting on the the Eastern Front and who stumbles into helping to hide Jews. It's a tense, tightly-plotted and intelligent thriller and Gillham superbly conve...
Elysium
Elysium rated it
Sigrid’s husband is far away at the war and she’s living very bored life with boring job and living with her mother-in-law. But then she meets Egon at the cinema and they became lovers. She also befriends young girl named Ericha who has ties with underground movement that helps Jews. I had read l...
Silver's Reviews
Silver's Reviews rated it
5.0 City of Women
The book's title indicates what Berlin was like during WWII....women waiting for their soldiers to return home, women enduring the air raids, women keeping an eye out for traitors and those not following the German edicts at that time, and women going to work. Sigrid lived with her mother-in-law ...
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