Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 5 months ago
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Ships From - Florida
Est. Publication Date - Feb 2007
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Ninereen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emmas husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit, moldering Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob's Catholic cousin, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identiry as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by the resistance to use her position to access details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safery—and her marriage vows-in order to help Jacob's cause. As the atrocities of war intensify, so does Emma's relationship with the Kommandant, building to a climax that will risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves. Set in a time when loyalties were tested and no one could be trusted, Pam Jenoff's astonishing debut faithfully explores the timeless themes of hope, struggle and defiance in the face of overwhelming odds.
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The Kommandant's Girl
ISBN: 9780778323426
Publisher Description
Becoming a spy for the resistance after the Nazi's invade Poland, Emma Bau, taking on a new identity as a gentile, becomes a high-ranking Nazi official's assistant and, leading a double life, compromi...
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