The German Midwife
Written by Mandy Robotham
Narrated by Julia Winwood
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
The USA Today Best Seller.
“A powerful, haunting debut”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network
An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz will love.
Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive.
But when Anke’s work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Führer’s child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife.
Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?
*Published in the UK as A Woman of War*
Mandy Robotham’s highly awaited next book, The Secret Messenger, is out now.
Mandy Robotham
Mandy Robotham is a Globe and Mail, USA Today, and UK, Canadian, US and Australian Kindle Top 100 bestseller. She has been an aspiring author from the age of nine, but was waylaid by journalism and later enticed by birth. She’s now a former midwife who writes about birth, death, love and everything else in between. She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is very well ell written, catches your constant attention, gives you a glimpse of the human suffering, as well as human strength. The narrator was excellent!!! She definitely made you think you are right there in the middle of the events happening!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Engrossing and heart touching tale. Worth every minute of listening time!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Easy read, or a good listen! The lady reading it did wonderful and the story is breathtaking.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely incredible! Suspenseful and filled with grief, joy, excitement.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was raw and yet poignantly beautiful. I have read a lot of WWII fiction, but nothing quite like this. Well done!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The reader was exceptional. And the book was a very good listen.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book - written well. Can’t wait to read the next one.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well done historical
Loved the narrator will look for more - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Im a sucker for WWII historical fiction and this one was a good listen. Couldn’t help but want to keep going and find out what would happen. Short chapters and the story moves along nicely. Bittersweet ending. Recommend if you’re into this genre.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I absolutely loved this book. Great read. Highly recommend. The audio version was good too.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great listen! Kept my attention and loved the wonderful narrator!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a fantastic read. I myself am a midwife and also have a current specific interest in world war 2 and holocaust related history. This story is fiction but much of the details that depicted life living in work camps and life during Nazi occupation seemed heartbreakingly accurate. The storyline was riveting, thought-provoking and yet surprisingly filled with accurate birth-related information/scenarios. The author is a former midwife herself. One could tell this by how she knew specific details and painted the atmosphere in a way that only those who really have experience being with birthing people could truly understand. I didn't want to put it down.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anke was a German midwife during World War. Her effort to save "undesirables" sent to her to the camps. When her skills were discovered she was soon put to work but unfortunately babies never lived long at Ravensbruck. One day she was whisked away to be the personal midwife for Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress. When the baby is born she is faced with a most difficult and dangerous decision. This is an excellent what-if story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well written and a new story of WWII. There are so many stories of the war, one is reluctant sometimes to plunge into another. This one is worth it. Honest in the evil revealed it also allows some hope, faith and even love. A new view of a well worn story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful quick read, sad ending. Easy way to learn the birthing process!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fascinating and haunting piece. Stays with you for days. Wow.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing book and story teller. will definitely read more by author
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really good. It's heartbreaking the cruelty during that time. The diminished value of children based on disability, race, religion or "imperfection". Hard to understand the people who would follow these orders... Challenging to listen to/read but necessary. We cannot forget.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lovely. A good, quick read. Ask questions answered, and I loved the love story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful book to read! I enjoyed the history aspect so much!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Held me captive all the way through. A story that I will not soon forget!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anke Hoff begins the story as a political prisoner in a German concentration camp. A midwife, Anke delivers the babies of pregnant inmates, only to have the guards murder the babies at first light. It is a brutal and demoralizing existence, but she does her best for the mother's under her care. One day, she is taken from the camps and told that she will now serve as midwife to Eva Braun.This was a well written and engaging book. The characters were interesting and dynamic. There were some good twists and unexpected moments that kept me reading long into the night. Overall, well worth picking up.