The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

The German Midwife

by Mandy Robotham

The USA Today Best Seller.

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 My Name is Eva 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.

Reviewed by wcs53 on

5 of 5 stars

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This was a great read - one that was hard to put down. It was a fictional 'what-if' story, with quite a few ethical questions thrown in. It tells the story of Anke, a German midwife who has been forced to work in a concentration camp, due to her sympathies towards the Jewish people, among other things. She is summoned by the Nazis to be midwife to Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress. The story weaves its way through the latter part of WWII and poses a number of questions, especially moral and ethical ones faced by a number of the story's characters.

This is a great debut novel that I enjoyed more than I thought it would and has a lot to offer to readers with a variety of tastes.

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