While Still We Live, Helen MacInnes
While Still We Live, Helen MacInnes
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While Still We Live

Author: Helen MacInnes

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 22 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2022

Synopsis

“Poland has not yet perished while still we live.”English girl Sheila Matthews accepts an invitation to holiday in Poland, the country where her father died in mysterious circumstances. When German bombers begin pounding Warsaw, she decides against returning home and is recruited by the Polish underground. Playing a dangerous game as a double agent, Sheila must use all her skill to stay one step ahead of the Gestapo. But soon the Germans begin to suspect her and she flees to the forest, to be reunited with the enigmatic Captain Adam Wisniewski, now a wanted partisan.Stalked by a ruthless Nazi officer, Sheila and Adam must decide where their loyalties lie: to the cause, or to one another.

About Helen MacInnes

Helen MacInnes (1907–1985) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. Dubbed “the queen of spy writers,” her books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in the United States alone and have been translated into over twenty-two languages. Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972).

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joelle on June 16, 2007

This is probably my all-time favorite book. I read it once every two years or so. All of Helen MacInnes' books are fun reads--providing the reader with interesting characters, suspenseful plots, and intriquing locales, but this one has a depth to it that most of the others don't have. This is more t......more

Goodreads review by Joanne on April 13, 2015

Sheila is visiting friends in Poland. The year is 1939 and war is about to break out. While she has the means to leave the country, she stays behind hoping to help her friends get through the Siege of Warsaw, but is mistaken for a spy by the Germans and they insist on her help. She never knew her fa......more

Goodreads review by Anne on August 13, 2010

I found this book while in high school in the school library. That was in the 1950's. I absolutely loved it, and later read it again several times. I also read many other books by this author, and althought she may be hard to find in your local library, most of her books are available on Amazon.com.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 18, 2019

Published in 1944 this book helped establish MacInnes as a master of war/spy novels. Young Scottish girl is unable to flee Poland when the Germans invade in 1939. She winds up in the Polish underground. The depiction of the bombing and eventual take over of Warsaw is truly harrowing. After fleeing W......more

Goodreads review by CLM on December 03, 2014

When Sheila, somewhat naively, accepts an invitation to visit Polish acquaintances in the countryside not far from Warsaw in the summer of 1939, she is oblivious to the fact that war is about to break out all over Europe. Suddenly, it is too late to return to England, and Sheila belatedly realizes s......more

Quotes

“The queen of spy writers.” Sunday Express (London), praise for the author

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