A greater love
By: Olga Watkins with James Gillespie
Publisher: Splendid Books Limited
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Droxford, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780956950512
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Yugoslav Personal narratives; Concentration camps; Deportations from Yugoslavia; Prisoners of war; Biography; HISTORY; Western; Deportation; Dachau (Concentration camp)
Description: The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and sets off on an extraordinary 2,000-mile search across Nazi-occupied Europe risking betrayal, arrest and death. As the Second World War heads towards its bloody climax, she refuses to give up - even when her mission leads her to the gates of Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps ... Now 88 and living in London, Olga tells with remarkable clarity of the courage and determination that drove her a.