Audio Book Description:
In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of peoplebegin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnantsof the Third Reich, from Warsawto the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old AnnaEmmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from thestalag to her family`s farm as forced labor. And there is a twenty-six-year-old Wehrmacht corporal, who thepair know as Manfred-who is,in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed to escape a train bound for Auschwitz. As they work their way west, they encounter a countrysideravaged by war. Their flight will test both Anna`s and Callum`s love, as well as their friendship with Manfred-assuming any of them evensurvive.
