The Kommandant’s Girl Audiobook (Free)

In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff displays the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a period of war

Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her indigenous Poland. Within times Emma’s spouse, Jacob, is pressured to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city’s decrepit Jewish ghetto. But then, in the lifeless of night time, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob’s Catholic aunt, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identification as Anna Lipowski, a gentile.

Emma’s already precarious circumstance is complicated by her launch to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his associate. Urged from the level of resistance to use her position to gain access to information on the Nazi profession, Emma must compromise her safety-and her marriage vows-in order to help Jacob’s trigger. As the atrocities of battle intensify, Emma must make choices that will push her to risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves.