The flight
By: Bryan Malessa
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780007266746
Subjects: Social aspects; Mothers; Mother and child; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Set at the end of World War II, this novel tells the story of a mother, who attempts to take her children from their village in East Prussia to the assumed safety of Berlin. Travelling across enemy lines, she discovers that their survival is dependent on her will to save them, and on overriding the tragedies they will face during the journey west.
Notes: Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2007.