In the Shadow of the Storm, Ella Zeiss
In the Shadow of the Storm, Ella Zeiss
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In the Shadow of the Storm

Author: Ella Zeiss, Helen MacCormac

Narrator: Kathleen Gati

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life, Sagas

Synopsis

As World War II approaches, two families run for their lives — and for the future of all they hold dear.1930: As raids and violent arrests sweep through their Crimean village, two families are forced to make desperate choices in order to keep themselves—and their hope—alive.The Pfeiffers get out as quickly as they can, braving a last-minute escape in the dead of night. Their friends the Scholzes are less lucky. Captured and transported to labour camps in the icy Far North, the future seems a bleak, dark nightmare for the couple and their three children.As the 1930s march towards the inevitable horror of war, and Europe is engulfed in hostility and persecution, the Pfeiffers find there is only so long—and so far—you can run before someone uncovers your past…In their darkest hours, these two families must do everything—anything—to survive. Will they ever find peace in the new world order? The first in a two-part touching and authentic family saga about a hitherto little-known chapter in history.

About Ella Zeiss

Ella Zeiss was born in 1980 in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Kazakhstan. At the age of ten, she resettled in the Federal Republic of Germany with her parents and grandparents. After graduating from high school, she studied business administration and international management at the University of Münster and the Copenhagen Business School and then worked in business for several years.The author currently lives with her husband and two daughters near Cologne, where she works as a full-time writer. So far she has published twenty-four novels in various genres. Her grandparents’ stories about the prewar period, the forced labour camps and the ensuing years of hardship have accompanied Ella Zeiss all her life, and at last she has turned them into a novel.The author also writes romantic and adventure fantasy under the pseudonym Elvira Zeissler, as well as humorous romantic novels under the name of Ellen McCoy. For further information, please visit her website, www.elvirazeissler.de.

Reviews

Goodreads review by SoRoLi (Sonja) ♡

3,5 Sterne Eine Familiengeschichte bzw. eigentlich zwei Familiengeschichten, die in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren in Russland spielt. Zwei deutschstämmige Familien in der Sowjetunion werden enteignet und vertrieben. Für eine Familie geht es in den hohen Norden nach Sibirien, eine andere wird nach Kasa......more

Goodreads review by Karren

The German settlement in the Crimean village in the 1930’s, the sound of a car engine is enough to make Anna Scholz start to worry, when she notices three armed men sitting in the car are from the PCFIA she knows it’s going to end badly and she hears shouting coming from her neighbors house. Pastor......more

Goodreads review by StinaStaffymum

Translated from its original language of German, IN THE SHADOW OF THE STORM is the story of two families from a Crimean village on the Soviet border. In 1930, the Soviets begin bullying, harassing and arresting anyone who did not agree with their Party and its ways. It was like reading about the Naz......more

Goodreads review by Jenna Zeilstra

I kept waiting for a plot twist or surprise connection between the two families, but there never was one. And then, the book just ended as though the author simply was done writing. I enjoyed the style of writing but the author focused on odd details that had no relevance to the plot and never circl......more

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