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This was a pretty good little story - although what spoiled it for me was the profanity all of a sudden out of nowhere right at the end. I get it that this character is drawn as the bad guy, but the cursing and women-hating were absolutely unnecessary to what had been a class act story. Although a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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