Mandy Robotham

For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places. Also published as The German Midwife.

A Woman of War

chloe mcpherson

This book was provided from Netgalley, Avon and Mandy Robotham in exchange for an honest review. 

Anke Hoff, a German midwife, seen as betraying her country as she helps Jewish woman through birth, is taken to a camp as punishment. 
After working hard, Anke has earned trust to roam ‘freely’ around camp to help any women who may be pregnant. 
After a while Anke is requested, to be a midwife to a woman who is part of Hitler’s inner circle. 
Anke is torn between her duty as a midwife and her hatred for regime that she is now apart of.
It is this time in her life that Anke meets unlikely allies, a forbidden love with an SS Officer, faced with loss and tragedy. 

This story felt so real to me, every emotion Anke felt, it felt all real to me. The story is beautiful, sad and tragic all at the same time and you really feel all that emotion while reading this book.
If you love historical fiction, especially set during WWII then I would highly recommend this book!

An enthralling tale from the #1 Globe and Mail and USA Today Best Selling Author. "A powerful, haunting debut"-Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network 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 Führer'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? ∗Published in the UK as A Woman of War∗ Mandy Robotham's highly awaited next book, The Secret Messenger, is out now.

The German Midwife

Caroline Lewicki

It's difficult to put into words all of the things I loved about this book. It was well researched and just fascinating. I love a good alternate history and the idea of Hitler having a child is definitely one of the most troubling and interesting what ifs. The ending tore at my heart strings and left me totally surprised. Robotham does a great job of not necessarily applying a morality to some of the characters that would be hard to argue they had. I felt the book was gracefully written and so engaging.

An enthralling tale from the #1 Globe and Mail and USA Today Best Selling Author. “A powerful, haunting debut”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

A Woman of War

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