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The Last Train to London - A Novel (Paperback)
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National Bestseller A Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice * A
Jewish Book Award Finalist "An absolutely fascinating, beautifully
rendered story of love, loss, and heroism in the dark days leading
up to World War II. . . . A glowing portrait of women rising up
against impossible odds to save children." -Kristin Hannah, New
York Times bestselling author of The Great Alone and The
Nightingale The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful
Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story
with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We
Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried
thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe-and one brave
woman who helped them escape to safety. In 1936, the Nazi are
little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan
Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and
budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets
to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and
companion is the brilliant Zofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose
mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two
adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis' take
control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a
member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish
children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It
is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the
Anschluss-Hitler's annexation of Austria-as, across Europe,
countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees
desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to
save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to
take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to
approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question," in a race against time to
bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and
Zofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.
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