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Vienna on Fire: A WWII Story of Survival
Hardcover
General FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781879834019
Publisher: Blue Danube Press
Published: May 15 2024
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Much of Vienna is on fire or will be soon.
Eighteen-year-old Greta Kolbe would like nothing better than to savor her youth, her happy home life with her mother and father, to look forward to university in the fall, romance and scholarship. But she lives in Vienna in 1938, and the Nazis have just invaded Austria. Vienna on Fire brings to startling life the awful reality of what happens to normal people when their lives are completely undone by an evil that, months, weeks, days before, would have been unthinkable. To survive, Greta must leave everything she knows behind, leave everyone she loves to their own unknown fate. Her parents have sacrificed everything to see that she gets transport on a ship to America. The problem is, and there are many of them on her perilous journey, she is wanted by the SS and the Gestapo for murder.
Greta has been raised a secular Jew who has attended Catholic schools and celebrated Christmas. Now, she is simply a Jew, a criminal on the run. Can she make it to the Netherlands before she is detained and sent to one of the new German camps? Vienna on Fire is a fast-paced Olympian sprint mined with dangers every mile of the way. Evil is palpable. Trust a thing of the past. Greta's life has become a nightmare where the next instant can bring salvation or calamity. Her only hope is her ingenuity, courage and will to survive.
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