But there’s enough time spent with most of them to see each as an individual. The Emmerich family – those five who start the journey and the brother fighting on the eastern front, the Scottish POW who got placed on their Prussian sugar beet farm as a laborer, the Jew who decided he wasn’t going to stay on the train to Auschwitz and who’s spent the past two years shifting like a chameleon based on which soldier’s papers he can find, the work camp prisoners slowly being walked to death as they’re herded back into the German heartland and the various people met along the desperate flight west ahead of the Russian army and towards the British and Americans. I did worry that I would lose track of the various protagonists and characters. Why? I really don’t know but once I got started, the pages flew. Maybe.” stack until something made me pull it out. I bet that’ll be uplifting.” And though I didn’t immediately put this in my “why did Jane send me this because I’m never gonna read it” pile of books, it lingered on the “I’ll get to it sometime. A book about a family’s flight through the horror that was the collapse of the thousand year Reich. When I first got a copy of this and read the dust jacket, I thought “A story of the end of WWII. Jayne B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Ebooks Germany / Historical Romances / Jewish-faith / World War II 27 Comments AugREVIEW: Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
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