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1938: A country on the brink of war, a woman who puts herself in the line of fire.
The Berlin Girl
What you need to know before your trail
Berlin, 1938: It’s the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling reporter Georgie Young is posted to Berlin, alongside fellow Londoner Max Spender, she knows they are entering the eye of the storm.
Arriving to a city swathed in red flags and crawling with Nazis, Georgie feels helpless, witnessing innocent people being torn from their homes. As tensions rise, she realises she and Max have to act – even if it means putting their lives on the line.
But when she digs deeper, Georgie begins to uncover the unspeakable truth about Hitler’s Germany – and the pair are pulled into a world darker than she could ever have imagined…
Travel Guide
Travel to Berlin BookTrail style amidst the shadows of war
The author mentions in the novel that she wanted to capture a time when humanity had plumbed to a terrible depth and that the period of Holocaust was the worst she could imagine. No one could have predicted what the true level of depravity of this time really was, but many saw and warned of Hitler’s hunger for domination and the journalists who were in the eye of the storm.
One of the journalists who warned of the storm to come was William L Shirer from CBS who documented events in his Berlin Diary. There were many women in the press pack during this time and she has imagined the fictional Georgie to represent them.
What was life like for women like her and families who had to live life on a knife’s edge?
The author takes personal stories and weaves them into this novel as she discovered late in life that her paternal grandfather was Jewish.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Berlin Girl
Destination/location: Berlin, London Author/guide: Mandy Robotham Departure Time: 1938
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