The Raven and the Angel: A Novel of the Holocaust

Eighty years on, the voices of the Holocaust, the living and the dead, demand to be heard. Germany 1943. The first bombing of Leipzig, Germany, destroyed Lucy's place of employment, killed a good friend, and landed her in the lap of the Third Reich. Educated but naïve, Lucy is put to work as a translator for a top official in Hitler's government. What begins as a secret assignment translating American movie magazines leads her to overhearing more than is safe for her to know. As Lucy's eyes are opened to the corrupt empire's plan to wipe out an entire people with Hitler's "Final Solution," Allied bombers begin to reach further into the once-proud cities of Germany's heartland. She now risks her life to assist the anti-Nazi underground. Her dramatic journey brings her into the arms of her first love – the group's mysterious and elusive leader – and to the very doors of the gas chamber at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. At Ravensbrück Lucy is thrown in with thousands of women the Nazis have labeled "enemies of the Reich." Some, like Lucy, have conspired against the regime, but she comes to know many whose only crime is having the wrong nationality, or religion, or politics, or even sexual preference. Sometimes, the crime of having nothing more than bad luck. Despite the madness of the camp's campaign of abuse and slaughter, Lucy's determination to survive helps her lead an eclectic group of young women who fight the Nazis' murderous enterprise with courage and brains. They will stay in your heart long after you turn the final page. View Less