Victorias War, Catherine A. Hamilton
Victorias War, Catherine A. Hamilton
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Victoria's War
A Novel

Author: Catherine A. Hamilton

Narrator: Emily Behr

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 05/05/2023


Synopsis

In VICTORIA'S WAR, Hamilton gives voice to the courageous Polish Catholic women who were kidnapped into the real-life Nazi slave labor operation during WWII. Inspired by true stories, this lost chapter of history won't soon be forgotten. POLAND, 1939: Nineteen-year-old Victoria Darski is eager to move away to college: her bags are packed and her train ticket is in hand. But instead of boarding a train to the University of Warsaw, she finds her world turned upside down when World War II breaks out. Victoria's father is sent to a raging battlefront, and the Darski women face the cruelty of the invaders alone. After the unthinkable happens, Victoria is ordered to work in a Nazi sewing factory. When she decides to go to a resistance meeting with her best friend, Sylvia, they are captured by human traffickers targeting Polish teenagers. Sylvia is singled out and sent to work in the brothels, and Victoria is transported in a cattle car to Berlin, where she is auctioned off as a slave. GERMANY, 1941: Twenty-year-old Etta Tod is at Mercy Hospital, where she's about to undergo involuntary sterilization because of the Fuhrer's mandate to eliminate hereditary deafness. Etta, an artist, silently critiques the propaganda poster on the waiting room wall while her mother tries to convince her she should be glad to get rid of her monthlies. Etta is the daughter of the German shopkeepers who buy Victoria at auction in Berlin. The stories of Victoria and Etta intertwine in the bakery's attic where Victoria is held—the same place where Etta has hidden her anti-Nazi paintings. The two women form a quick and enduring bond. But when they're caught stealing bread from the bakery and smuggling it to a nearby work camp, everything changes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by "Avonna on June 01, 2020

Check out all of my reviews at: [URL not allowed] VICTORIA’S WAR by Catherine A. Hamilton is a historical fiction novel that depicts the horrific lives of Polish women kidnapped by the Nazi’s for slavery in Germany during the Second World War. Ms. Hamilton’s writing paints a picture t......more

Goodreads review by Rosh ~catching up slowly~ on September 09, 2021

Sometimes, you read a book for its cover. Sometimes, you read it despite its cover. This book falls in the second category. I didn't like the cover at all and went for the novel only for the story it promised. And to a great extent, it met my expectations. You might have read about black slaves being......more

Goodreads review by Pauline Reid on October 10, 2022

I was very much touched with this audiobook, firstly I would like to thank the author, Catherine A. Hamilton, for giving me a gifted copy via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This ARC is now published. Readers, do you want a raw, poignant book? because this one is definitely that. Anyone......more

Goodreads review by Jeanette on March 08, 2020

My thanks to Netgalley and the Publishers for this advanced copy to read and review this e-book. To the thousands of women who died in Nazi slave labour camps and to those Germans with a physical or mental disability murdered by their own countrymen this story is written in parallel to each of the tw......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on April 14, 2020

I Enjoyed everything about this book there was nothing I didn't like about the book. I would gladly reread it again. I Would recommend this book to anyone.......more