Wow! That is all I can say about this book. The book takes place in Poland during WWII, it is about a Jewish girl named Emma who leaves her husband, home, family and friends to survive the Nazi occupation over Poland. Her husband, Jacob, is a member of the Resistance (a group made up of Jewish people and others who want to do as much as they can to help the Jewish community survive through this and attempt to overtake the German/Nazi rule) and arranges for Emma to live with his Catholic aunt (Krysia) and take on the life of a Polish girl named Anna.
Emma (beyond this point will be referred to as Anna), meets Kommandant Richwalder at a dinner party Krysia hosts. The Kommandant offers her a position at Nazi headquarters in Krakow as his personal assistant. Anna takes the job in hopes of gathering information to help the resistance so they can end this war and she can be reuinted with her husband.
Anna and the Kommandant get involved in a relationship that is menat to only be physical but Anna ends up developing actual feelings for the Kommandant.
I won't ruin the rest of the story for anyone who hasn't read it yet, but it is a fabulous read. I read it in a weekend and for anyone that knows me, knows that RARELY happens. I literally could not put the book down. I would look up at my clock in the evening to find that it was 2am and I was still reading (I need to be up at 5:30am to get ready for work). I was enthralled and felt for each of the characters. Read it! Read it! Read it!
RE: THE KOMMANDANT'S GIRL by Pam Jenoff
OMG!!!! This is MUST READ material for ANY lover of stories from the Nazi period. Me parents and grandparents, being from the Emerald Isle, can regale with tales of the Nazis and of listenening to the "British Bulldog", Sir Winston Churchill, on the wireless. I just finished a book, "Knight's Cross," about a covert OSS plan to kidnap and bring "Nazi Bigwigs" to justice for their War Crimes, with a secondary plot of withholding information from the US's Russian Allies as they closed in on Berlin near the end of European fighting and as the US set the POWs, in the camps held by the Germans', free.
Also, being full-blooded Irish in the United States, in some regions, is not easy -- as some Americans have it in their minds what Irish people are and supposedly behave like (made famous by the British, I suppouse). It's NOT fun being the BUTT of jokes. "Irish jokes" go a long way!
What IS true, however, is that guerilla warfare and terrorism was created AND PERFECTED by the Irish -- so every one that doesn't like it can just piss off!!! Hee~~Hee! C'mon me luvvies! Ye know I'm teasing!
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I saw this one...
mentioned in my book club's flyer and thought it sounded like something I needed to check out. Glad to hear it was as good as I thought it might be!
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