Book Review: Bitter Tears & Secrets Revealed by Marion Kummerow

Today I am featuring two books from the series,

War Girls

by Marion Kummerow

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About Bitter Tears (War Girls Book 7)

She’s Polish. He’s German. Enemies even after the war.

A Wehrmacht deserter of conscience, hiding out on a farm in Poland. The woman who loves him. Richard thought he’d be safe once the war was over…

… and he was wrong. Staying with her threatens both of their lives.

Katrina longed for peace. But when it finally arrives, nothing changes. Because loving the wrong man still is a crime.

To be together they must embark on a life-threatening flight across two countries with no one to turn to for help.

This page-turning adventure by an USA Today Bestselling Author will immerse you into the chaos ravaging Europe in the aftermath of WW2 with great attention to historical detail.

Bitter Tears is book 7 in the War Girl series but can be read as a stand-alone. Characters from previous books make an appearance in later books of the series.

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About Secrets Revealed (War Girls, Book 8)

Whom can you trust when friends become foes? 

  Hiding from the Nazis…

… right under their noses.

Lotte works for the Wehrmacht and spies for the British.

A race against the time begins, when her contact in the Norwegian resistance is captured.

Who will be faster, the Allies liberating Norway or the Gestapo finding out her secret?

If she’s caught she’ll be tortured and killed.

But this is not her only problem, because when the tides turn, friends become foes and foes turn out to have a heart filled with compassion. Without help, Lotte will never make it back home to see her family again.

Follow Lotte on her agonizing flight across Denmark, evading not only her own people.

You’ll love this fast-pace WW2 adventure, because everyone loves a spunky and feisty heroine.

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My Book Reviews: 

Bitter Tears:

This novel proved to be an eye-opener to me as far as understanding conditions in Europe after the end of the Second World War. I knew the people there dealt with a lot of destruction and hunger. I knew there were those living in eastern countries taken over by the Russians who were forced out because they were Germans. However, I never realized that the conquered German soldiers, instead of being disarmed and allowed to return home, were actually held in prisoner of war camps for an extended time. If captured by the Russians, it probably meant spending the rest of their lives in work camps in Russia. Even if they fled to the American or British sectors where they suspected they would receive better treatment, they knew they were dealing with those nations being bound by treaty to turn those coming from the east over to the Russians.

I thought the author painted a vivid picture of conditions in Germany and Eastern Europe after the war. Her characters effectively portrayed the dilemma of those who would not have chosen to fight in the war, but now the war was over, only wished to be reunited with family and resume their lives. This book was written well. I would recommend it.

Secrets Revealed:

I read about the main character in this book in an earlier book in the series. Before, she was put in a concentration camp for “re-education” because of her activities at the start of the Nazi rise to power. She was rescued, her death faked, and she became an agent for the British while filling a women’s auxiliary job as a Blitzmädel in Norway. However, once the war ended, there was an urgency to get the women attached to the German military out of Norway and back to Germany. The effort did not go smoothly.

I enjoyed how the author dealt with the dilemma Lotte, known by a pseudonym, faced regarding whether it was safe or not to reveal the espionage she had been performing. Would the British who captured her be willing to check out the truth of her story, or treat her like a liar, or perhaps an enemy spy? Would the Germans, once they found out, understand her motives, or regard her as a traitor? The characters in this story were well-developed. Conditions of the day do not appear to have been sugar-coated by the author. The suspense throughout the story kept me engaged to the end. I definitely can recommend this story.

I’m waiting for the next story in this series.

 

About the Author:

Marion Kummerow was born and raised in Germany, before she set out to "discover the world" and lived in various countries. In 1999 she returned to Germany and settled down in Munich where she's now living with her family. She has written about her German ancestors who resisted the growth and influence of the Nazi party and paid for it with their lives.

Visit her blog at kummerow.info or her facebook page at facebook.com/autorinkummerow