The Girl From Krakow, Alex Rosenberg
The Girl From Krakow, Alex Rosenberg
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The Girl From Krakow

Author: Alex Rosenberg

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 11 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/01/2015

Synopsis

It’s 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store—marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live. She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war. Living by her wits among the Germans as their conquests turn to defeat, she seeks a way to prevent the inevitable doom of Nazism from making her one of its last victims. Can her passion and resolve outlast the most powerful evil that Europe has ever seen?In an epic saga that spans from Paris in the ’30s and Spain’s Civil War to Moscow, Warsaw, and the heart of Nazi Germany, The Girl from Krakow follows one woman’s battle for survival as entire nations are torn apart, never to be the same.

About Alex Rosenberg

Alex Rosenberg is an American philosopher and the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Rosenberg has written many books, including The Atheist’s Guide to Reality. The Girl from Krakow is his first novel. It is based on the experiences of several individuals through the 1930s and World War II.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast

Unexpectedly good read. The story centres on Rita Feuerstahl and her experiences as a polish Jew prior to and during World War 2. This isn’t your average holocaust novel, and the author has definitely researched well. You need to know your history to get the most out this and whilst some reviewers hav......more

Goodreads review by Kristin

This book was a struggle to get through. There were a lot of references to political ideologies that I didn't know and was too lazy to look up myself. The character wasn't likable and unrealistic. But I guess there had to be some people who got through WWII easily. I'm glad it was a free Amazon book......more

Goodreads review by Pam

I was of course drawn to this book by the title (my beloved Krakow!) and by the promise of a well-executed WWII story by Duke professor Alex Rosenberg. I found much more than your average war story -- the high stakes of a political secret, complex and unusual love affairs and a child in peril had me......more

Goodreads review by Petesea

Couldn’t put it down. A story about Jewish lives tossed about by World War 2 in Poland that is so compelling and well told. The horrors that these characters experienced are ghastly yet they are able to survive. I would have rated this higher, but one of the outcomes at the end is predictable and so......more

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