The Last Train to London: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling writer 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 CAN NOT See, centering over the Kindertransports that carried a large number 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 previous Stephan Neuman, the child of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and about The Last Teach to London: A Book budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s closest friend and companion is the amazing Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a intensifying, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two children’ carefree innocence is definitely shattered when the Nazis’ take control.

There is certainly hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, an associate of the Dutch level of resistance, risks her lifestyle smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations which will take them. It really is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss-Hitler’s annexation of Austria-as, across Europe, countries close their edges to the growing quantity of refugees eager to escape.

Tante Truus, while she actually is known, is set to save as much children while she can. After Britain passes a measure to take at-risk child refugees in the German Reich, she dares to strategy Adolf Eichmann, the person who would later help devise the “Last Answer to the Jewish Question,” in a competition against time for you to bring kids like Stephan, his youthful sibling Walter, and Žofie-Helene on the perilous journey to an uncertain future overseas.