Only the Brave: The heart-wrenching story of courage and hope set in wartime Berlin
Apr 2024 · Pan Macmillan
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Only the Brave is a heart-wrenching story of love, courage and hope set in wartime Berlin, from billion-copy bestseller Danielle Steel.
In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler’s Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others, and as the persecution of Jewish families begins, she joins a group of dissidents who are committed to helping them to safety.
As World War Two is declared, Sophia answers her religious calling and enters a convent, where she continues to fight bravely against the Nazi regime. That is until the fateful day she is arrested and taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where her only hope of survival is to escape and attempt the dangerous journey to the border.
Sophia’s situation is further complicated when she meets a US airman, shot down nearby. As she nurses him back to health, they grow close, but she is still resolute that her destiny is with the Church.
As Sophia looks for a sign of which path to follow, will she have the strength to question what she has committed her whole life to?
In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler’s Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others, and as the persecution of Jewish families begins, she joins a group of dissidents who are committed to helping them to safety.
As World War Two is declared, Sophia answers her religious calling and enters a convent, where she continues to fight bravely against the Nazi regime. That is until the fateful day she is arrested and taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where her only hope of survival is to escape and attempt the dangerous journey to the border.
Sophia’s situation is further complicated when she meets a US airman, shot down nearby. As she nurses him back to health, they grow close, but she is still resolute that her destiny is with the Church.
As Sophia looks for a sign of which path to follow, will she have the strength to question what she has committed her whole life to?
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Rosemary De Gouveia
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July 9, 2024
Title of book is perfect. I highly recommend this WW2 book. Sophia loses her mom to TB when she is 18. She studies and becomes an accomplished nurse who helps her dad in his hospital. She then decides she wants to become a nun. Her father is approached by the nazi's to use his hospital to kill undesirables. He refuses as he took an oath to save lives not to kill innocent people that the Germans consider undesirables. The gestapo arrest him, torture him and he is taken to a concentration camp. They destroy everything in his hospital and their home and burn it to the ground. Sophia is approached by Claus, a friend who is part of the resistance, and who had helped her younger sister and her husband to safety when they were wanted by the gestapo, to help a young Jewish boy to a safe house. When she is returning to the convent late at night, she is arrested by the gestapo, and gets beaten up and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. Get this book to find out what happens further.
About the author
Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with a billion copies of her novels sold. Her international bestsellers include The Wedding Planner, Palazzo and Happiness. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children’s books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood. Danielle divides her time between Paris and her home in northern California.
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