Name: City of Women
ISBN: 9780399157769

David R. Gillham

Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. A first novel.

City of Women

Melissa Palmer

Book #54 Read in 2013
City of Women by David Gillham

This historical fiction book is set during the time of the Holocaust. Sigrid is a German woman who ends up having an affair with a Jewish man and helping Jews escape the Nazis. Sigrid is a hard character to like at first but I ended up liking her. By the end of the book, she took control of her destiny. The horrors of the war and the hatred were detailed well in this book. The writing style was sophisticated. All of the characters were flawed in their own way, which made them very realistic. Overall, a good read.

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Amber Laha

I really enjoyed the book, but had issues with grammar, certain characterizations, and plot holes. If you want to hear a detailed review of this clicky on the forthcoming part of this sentence  and find out about why I have mixed feelings on this book.

b.andherbooks

everything you could hope for in a historical novel. Very refreshing to see a WWII perspective from the German side, and the moral ambiguity that was pervasive in 1943 Germany. Sigrid is a woman who you can both hate and admire. You really can't know how you would act if faced with the decisions she was, and that's what makes this book so terrifying.

City of Women

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