num_pages: 448
description:  Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn Kristin Harmel and Pam Jenoff this new historical fiction novel from an acclaimed author is based on true WWII stories of life in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Occupation and the women who served the Allies as agents and spies. Casting light into one of the darkest periods of World War II this powerful book tells of two Jewish sisters one imprisoned in Poland and the other who joins the Special Operations Executive in a daring attempt to free her family from the Nazis. Its not just a thousand miles that separates Hanna Majewski from her younger sister Stefa. There is another gulfbetween the traditional Jewish ways that Hanna chose to leave behind in Warsaw and her new independent life in London. But as autumn of 1940 draws near Germany begins a savage aerial bombing campaign in England killing and displacing tens of thousands. Hanna who narrowly escapes death is recruited as a spy in an undercover operation that sends her back to her war-torn homeland. In Hannas absence her parents sister and brother have been driven from their comfortable apartment into the Warsaw Ghetto. Sealed off from the rest of the city the Ghetto becomes a prison for nearly half a million Jews struggling to survive amid starvation disease and the constant threat of deportation to Treblinka. Once a pretty and level-headed teenager Stefa is now committed to the Jewish resistance. Together she Hanna and Janka a family friend living on the Aryan side of the city form a trio called The War Girls. Against overwhelming odds and through heartbreak they will fight to rescue their loved ones finding courage through sisterhood to keep hope alive . . .
language: English
title: The War Girls
publisher: Kensington