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An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz will love. Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Fuhrer's child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife. Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?
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The German Midwife, Mandy Robotham
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- The German Midwife
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mandy Robotham
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0008452733
- ISBN13
- 9780008452735
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Wars, World War II, English Literature, Jews, Holocaust, Nazism, Third Reich (Nazi Germany), 1933-1945, Concentration camps, Adolf Hitler, Obstetrics, Midwives
- First published
- 2018
- Original title
- A Woman of War
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz will love. Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Fuhrer's child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife. Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?