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Book Review of City of Women

City of Women
City of Women
Author: David Gillham
Book Type: Paperback
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Living in Berlin during WWII with her party member mother-in-law, Sigrid Schroder works as a stenographer while her husband serves on the Russian front lines. David Gillham has written a remarkable debut novel that encompasses the brutality, betrayal and terror of the women who are left to survive as civilians. Sigrid becomes obsessed with her Jewish lover, and slowly evolves into a woman who fights to save the victims of the horrors being perpetrated by the Nazis. Gillham has captured the fear of those left to survive by whatever means in war-torn Berlin.