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City of Women
City of Women
Author: David R. Gillham
It is 1943?the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model soldier?s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780399157769
ISBN-10: 039915776X
Publication Date: 8/7/2012
Pages: 400
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 22 ratings
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2
Exceptionally powerful. An intimate look at the lives of ordinary people living on the inside of Nazi terrorism during WWII, and their efforts to resist them. The reader is involved with the characters and their fight from the first sentence. The fear is palpable. So is the passion, the sympathy and the triumph. I definitely recommend this book! D.
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Helpful Score: 1
What the heck is a German glance? I have a German mother, I was raised and educated in Germany but I do not understand what a German glance is... a recurring action in this tomb. There were other fantastic and non-German colloquialisms but too many to list.
I could not wrap my mind around this story because it did not capture the German culture well especially women... an american author portraying German women during the war is just not feasible. I wanted to like this book, I trudged through it and to be fair I finished it (I cringed a lot).
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