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Este o carte ok, tulburatoare si cuprinde povestea a trei tinere care afla ce inseamna cel de Al doilea Razboi Mondial. Ceea ce nu mi-a placut insa a fost faptul ca are un numar prea mare de pagini, iar prea multe pagini au tendinta sa plictiseasca.
🌟🌟🌟and a half stars. This was a sweet WWII novel about 3 women involved in the war in very different ways. I listened to the audiobook and it was in first person narrative from each of the women’s standpoints, based on true events but historical fiction. Each chapter was one of the 3 women as narrator and easy to follow. For me the Holocaust women’s was the most important and tragic for obvious reasons. What I didn’t like overall was the romantic silliness of a relationship, Ferriday’s, and the
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A fascinating and terrible story of horrors during World War II and the amazing selfless Caroline Ferriday. I couldn’t stop reading.
A fascinating and terrible story of horrors during World War II and the amazing selfless Caroline Ferriday. I couldn’t stop reading.
Excellent fictionalization of a true story. It is a re-telling of a little-known episode of WWII, the case of Polnish women prisoners, subjected to experimental surgery and treatment in women's concentration camp.
The story is based on two real-life characters, Herta Oberhause, the female doctor who carried out the orders of performing these surgeries, and Caroline Faraday, the American philanthropist who brought the story of the victims to light and orchestrated their treatment in the US and ke ...more
The story is based on two real-life characters, Herta Oberhause, the female doctor who carried out the orders of performing these surgeries, and Caroline Faraday, the American philanthropist who brought the story of the victims to light and orchestrated their treatment in the US and ke ...more
I liked the first 2/3 of this book quite a bit and then things sort of unraveled for me in the last 1/3 :(
Couldn't finish this one.
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