An interesting and informative account of nine women and their escape from their Death March across Germany, in the final throws of World War II.
The book is split into chapters named after the women, and gives some information on each of them as it tells the tale of how they were captured, what horrors they lived through and their eventual escape. The nine women were all members of various branches of the Resistance, and were considered political prisoners by the Nazis.
The author is the great-niece of one of the women and has used interviews, personal accounts and official records to piece together the tale of this escape.
My one gripe with this book is to do with the author’s Notes section at the back of the book: some of these notes, in fact quite a lot of them, mean very little to the average reader - there are just a couple of words and some numbers - obviously references to books; but when you see a superscript number in the text and flick to the Notes section and get nothing particularly meaningful it can be frustrating.
The book is split into chapters named after the women, and gives some information on each of them as it tells the tale of how they were captured, what horrors they lived through and their eventual escape. The nine women were all members of various branches of the Resistance, and were considered political prisoners by the Nazis.
The author is the great-niece of one of the women and has used interviews, personal accounts and official records to piece together the tale of this escape.
My one gripe with this book is to do with the author’s Notes section at the back of the book: some of these notes, in fact quite a lot of them, mean very little to the average reader - there are just a couple of words and some numbers - obviously references to books; but when you see a superscript number in the text and flick to the Notes section and get nothing particularly meaningful it can be frustrating.