No Going Back
Published on 24. August 2019
200 pages
978-1-83859-978-2 (ISBN)
Description
Poland 1944
Arrested by the Gestapo for carrying a gun, Marta has to think fast. With a mixture of courage, cunning and sheer good luck, she faces down her interrogators and protects her beloved fiance. But at what cost to her?
Nothing in her privileged background prepares her for the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany. Close friendships and an unshakeable belief help her survive. As the war ends, she has to pull together the fragments of her shattered life. What does the future hold and will she ever see her fiance again?
Blending imagination with historical fact and the memories of an exceptional woman, No Going Back is a tale as gripping as it is moving and offers a unique insight into one of modern Europe's darkest periods.
Arrested by the Gestapo for carrying a gun, Marta has to think fast. With a mixture of courage, cunning and sheer good luck, she faces down her interrogators and protects her beloved fiance. But at what cost to her?
Nothing in her privileged background prepares her for the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany. Close friendships and an unshakeable belief help her survive. As the war ends, she has to pull together the fragments of her shattered life. What does the future hold and will she ever see her fiance again?
Blending imagination with historical fact and the memories of an exceptional woman, No Going Back is a tale as gripping as it is moving and offers a unique insight into one of modern Europe's darkest periods.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Troubador Publishing
File size
0,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83859-978-2 (9781838599782)
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Anna Patrick has worked as a journalist, a public relations manager and school teacher. This is her first novel and is based on her conversations with her mother about surviving this terrible time. This is the story of her mother but also of Poland and the trials and horrors that country went through then.
