Name: Clayton, m: Last Train to London
SKU: 52772299
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Author: Meg Waite Clayton
ISBN: 9780062946942

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Meg Waite Clayton

Publisher

Harper Paperbacks

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.7x3.3 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9780062946942

Synopsis "Clayton, m: Last Train to London "

National BestsellerA Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice - A Jewish Book Award Finalist"An absolutely fascinating, beautifully rendered story of love, loss, and heroism in the dark days leading up to World War II. . . . A glowing portrait of women rising up against impossible odds to save children." --Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Alone and The NightingaleThe New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe--and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety.In 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Zofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis' take control.There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss--Hitler's annexation of Austria--as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape.Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Zofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.

Meg Waite Clayton

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Born in Washington D.C., Meg Waite Clayton is a novelist with degrees in Law, History, and Psychology from the University of Michigan. She worked as a lawyer for a few years and began writing after moving to a farm on the outskirts of Baltimore

She has contributed to media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, Writer's Digest, and Runner's World, as well as participating in radio programs

Her literary debut was The Language of Light, and with The Wednesday Sisters, Clayton became a bestseller. The Last Train to Freedom is her first work translated into Spanish. In it, the author takes the reader to 1936 following the footsteps of a young Stephan Neuman, from a Jewish family residing in Vienna.

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