![]() ![]() ![]() She ends up in Ravensbruck, a women's concentration camp, along with women from France, Poland, and Germany. No one has a clue where she or her plane is - because she has been captured and taken to Germany. Her uncle uses his connections to get her a flying assignment to France and it is on the return back to England where she disappears. She goes to England to join the Air Transport Auxiliary and assist the Allied cause. Rose Justice is an eager American pilot who learned flying at the knee of her father, the owner of a flight school in Pennsylvania. It's also for that reason, though, that I think a book like Rose Under Fire is so important. The experiences of the women at Ravensbruck were so horrible and beyond imagination, it's no wonder that people at the time didn't believe the stories coming out of Europe. It's not a quick read nor is it an easy read. It was so much harder to take knowing that all these atrocities were based on actual events. With Rose, even though I knew it was also a work of Elizabeth Wein's ability and imagination, it felt so much like a memoir. However, I never forgot that it was a work of historical fiction. It was a heartbreaking and beautiful story about friendship and courage set during World War II that I compulsively read in a day. Verity was one of my favorite books last year. To me, Rose Under Fire was a harder read than Verity. ![]()
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