This is the harrowing true story of the nine courageous women who in 1945 were forced onto a death march.
Knowing their fate they made the collective decision to escape together and these women's stuck by each other through thick and thin even when their lives were endangered.
Travelling across the country to the front hoping for aid this is the brutal, graphic and harrowing account of that journey.
The horrors described in this is not for the faint hearted, it's sickening the conditions people were trying to survive under during wartime.
Told with empathy and a real interest in the narrative the author, a relative of one of "The nine" does a wonderful and exhaustive job of tracking down the histories of these women and their subsequent lives post war.
A wonderful tale of human courage and endurance during a terrible period of history.
Knowing their fate they made the collective decision to escape together and these women's stuck by each other through thick and thin even when their lives were endangered.
Travelling across the country to the front hoping for aid this is the brutal, graphic and harrowing account of that journey.
The horrors described in this is not for the faint hearted, it's sickening the conditions people were trying to survive under during wartime.
Told with empathy and a real interest in the narrative the author, a relative of one of "The nine" does a wonderful and exhaustive job of tracking down the histories of these women and their subsequent lives post war.
A wonderful tale of human courage and endurance during a terrible period of history.