The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton

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Heroism in Hell.  


A moving, well-written, important story that brings terrifying and heroic aspects of history to life.   

This book is an absorbing read that alternates between two storylines.  Stephan is a Jewish boy who watches his world crumble when Hitler annexes Austria March 12, 1938. In the meantime, a true-life Dutch heroine, Geertruida Wijsmuller puts her own life at risk over and over to transport children to the safety of London.  She's involved in the Kindertransport which organizes the herculean effort of rescuing 10,000 kids in the months leading to WWII.  

Very good book!

Further reading about the Holocaust:

Night by Elie Wiesel 
In Our Hearts We Were Giants by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Connor – Historical Fiction

Novels set in WWII:

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (Based on the author's own family.)
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay (About the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in Paris)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Won a Pulitzer)
City of Thieves by David Benioff (Set during the Siege of Leningrad)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (During German occupation of Guernsey Island)
Address Unknown by Kressmann Taylor

Non-fiction About the Pacific Theater during WWII: 

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers 

U.S. Internment Camps during WWII: 

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

 Annette

Comments

Reading in the Garden said…
I agree. I had not heard of the Kindertransport before. So interesting!
September 22, 2019 at 2:56 PM
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