Today I am taking part in the blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club (founded by Mary Anne Yarde) featuring the works of Marion
Kummerow, Marina Osipova, Rachel Wesson, JJ Toner, Ellie Midwood, and
Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger and their new book - The Road to Liberation: Trials and Triumphs of WWII.
I'm going to spotlight this fantastic collection of stories and introduce the authors.
The
Road to Liberation: Trials and Triumphs of WWII
Riveting
stories dedicated to celebrating the end of WWII.
From
USA Today, international bestselling and award-winning authors comes
a collection filled with courage, betrayal, hardships and,
ultimately, victory over some of the most oppressive rulers the world
has ever encountered.
By
1944, the Axis powers are fiercely holding on to their quickly
shrinking territories.
The
stakes are high—on both sides:
Liberators
and oppressors face off in the final battles between good and evil.
Only personal bravery and self-sacrifice will tip the scales when the
world needs it most.
Read about a small child finding
unexpected friends amidst the cruelty of the concentration camps, an
Auschwitz survivor working to capture a senior member of the SS, the
revolt of a domestic servant hunted by the enemy, a young Jewish girl
in a desperate plan to escape the Gestapo, the chaos that confused
underground resistance fighters in the Soviet Union, and the
difficult lives of a British family made up of displaced children..
2020
marks 75 years since the world celebrated the end of WWII. These
books will transport you across countries and continents during the
final days, revealing the high price of freedom—and why it is still
so necessary to “never forget”.
Stolen Childhood by
Marion Kummerow
The Aftermath by Ellie
Midwood
When's Mummy coming? by
Rachel Wesson
Too Many Wolves in the
Local Woods by Marina Osipova
Liberation Berlin by JJ
Toner
Magda’s Mark by
Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Publication
date: May 5th 2020
You can order this book from the following -
Now let's meet the authors -
Marion
Kummerow
Marion
Kummerow
was born and raised in Germany, before she set out to "discover
the world" and lived in various countries. In 1999 she returned
to Germany and settled down in Munich where she's now living with her
family.
After
dipping her toes with non-fiction books, she finally tackled the
project dear to her heart. UNRELENTING is the story about her
grandparents, who belonged to the German resistance and fought
against the Nazi regime. It's a book about resilience, love and the
courage to stand up and do the right thing.
Marina
Osipova
Marina
Osipova
was born in East Germany into a military family and grew up in Russia
where she graduated from the Moscow State Institute of History and
Archives. She also has a diploma as a German language translator from
the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages. In Russia, she
worked first in a scientific-technical institute as a translator then
in a Government Ministry in the office of international relations,
later for some Austrian firms. For seventeen years, she lived in the
United States where she worked in a law firm. Eventually, she found
her home in Austria. She is an award-winning author and a member of
the Historical Novel Society.
Rachel
Wesson
Rachel
Wesson
is Irish born and bred. Drawn to reading from an early age, she
started writing for publication a few years back. When she is not
writing, Rachel likes to spend her time reading and playing with her
three kids. Living in Dublin there are plenty of things to do,
although the cowboys and Indians of her books rarely make an
appearance. To chat with Rachel connect with her on Facebook -
authorrachelwesson. To check out her newest releases sign up to her
mailing list.
JJ
Toner
JJ Toner My
background is in Mathematics and computing, but I have been writing
full time since 2005. I write short stories and novels. My novels
include the bestselling WW2 spy story 'The Black Orchestra', and its
three sequels, 'The Wings of the Eagle', 'A Postcard from Hamburg',
and 'The Gingerbread Spy'
Many
of my short stories have been published in mainstream magazines.
Check out 'EGGS and Other Stories' - a collection of satirical SF
stories. I was born in a cabbage patch in Ireland, and I still live
here with my first wife, although a significant part of our extended
family lives in Australia.
Ellie
Midwood
Ellie
Midwood
is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning historical fiction
author. She owes her interest in the history of the Second World War
to her grandfather, Junior Sergeant in the 2nd Guards Tank Army of
the First Belorussian Front, who began telling her about his
experiences on the frontline when she was a young girl. Growing up,
her interest in history only deepened and transformed from reading
about the war to writing about it. After obtaining her BA in
Linguistics, Ellie decided to make writing her full-time career and
began working on her first full-length historical novel, "The
Girl from Berlin." Ellie is continuously enriching her library
with new research material and feeds her passion for WWII and
Holocaust history by collecting rare memorabilia and documents.
In
her free time, Ellie is a health-obsessed yoga enthusiast, neat
freak, adventurer, Nazi Germany history expert, polyglot,
philosopher, a proud Jew, and a doggie mama. Ellie lives in New York
with her fiancé and their Chihuahua named Shark Bait.
Chrystyna
Lucyk-Berger
Chrystyna
Lucyk-Berger
was born in Minnesota in 1969 and grew up in the culture-rich
neighborhood of "Nordeast" Minneapolis. She started her
writing career with short stories, travel narratives, worked as a
journalist and then as a managing editor for a magazine publisher
before jumping the editor's desk and pursuing her dreams of writing
and traveling. In 2000, she moved to western Austria and established
her own communications training company. In 2005, she self-published
a historical narrative based on her relatives' personal histories and
experiences in Ukraine during WWII. She has won several awards for
her short stories and now primarily writes historical fiction. During
a trip into northern Italy over the Reschen Pass, she stood on the
edge of Reschen Lake and desperately wanted to understand how a
15th-century church tower ends up sticking out of the water. What
stories were lying beneath? Some eight years later, she launched the
"Reschen Valley" series with five books and a novella
releasing between 2018 and 2021.
For
more on Chrystyna, dive in at inktreks(dot)com.
Would love for you to check out this fabulous collection of stories and the authors above.
Till the next time.
Take care Zoe
