The Last Year of the War in Around the World in 80 Books

Nov 30, 2020 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it liked it

Shelves: us-no-amer, audiobooks, historical-fiction, ww2-holocaust, 0-dnf, 2020

I listened to this on audio and stayed with it for about one third of the novel. I decided not to finish it because even though the subject matter is so important in US history, there was something lacking for me. I love historical fiction and wanted to learn more about the internment camps and the misuse of so many Americans like I’ve read about in other novels.

I’ve dragged myself through a number of novels in the past few months and just decided not to do it again.

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Aug 06, 2019 Lisa of Hopewell rated it liked it

Shelves: audio-books, read-in-2019

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Elise and her family are a normal family with German roots living in very German Davenport, Iowa, in 1943. A neighbor boy starts it all by asking her chemist father if he knew how to make a bomb. Of course a chemist knows how to make a bomb, but in the midst of a war with Germany a chemist who can make a bomb, who has a copy of Mein Kampf, who has family still in Germany a has a case full of German military medals–well, the F.B.I. found that intriguing.

Very soon Elise and her family became some ...more

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Sep 07, 2021 Jen Pratt rated it really liked it

This is another great book by Susan Meissner! This book follows the lives of two friends who were in a containment camp during WWII. Elise and Meriko are both born and raised in America. Their families are from Germany and Japan and suspected of colluding with their homelands. They meet when their families are both interned in a camp in Texas.
This story chronicles their experiences in the camp, and Elise as their family is repatriated to Germany in exchange for American prisoners in Germany. Th ...more

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Dec 08, 2018 Kat rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-enjoyed, kindle-book, 2018

This is the second Susan Meissner novel I’ve had the privilege to read this year and it has made a devoted fan of me.

It’s an epic WWII story from an angle you typically don’t see, the German-American side. Elisa Sontag, born and raised in the United States, is forced to live through an internment camp where she finds a connection with another prisoner, who will guide Elise through her life choices when she is sent back to Germany and beyond.

It’s not JUST a coming-of-age-in-a-wartime story!There ...more

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