It seems like in most WWII novels, the Germans are all Nazis and therefore evil, and everyone else is the good guy. The best part about the book was the way the lines were blurred and nothing was black and white. I told my husband, “This sounds like a book I can sink my teeth into!” I wasn’t disappointed. Once I read the book jacket, I was so excited. I just grabbed this at the library because I remembered it was on my to-read list, but I had forgotten what it was about. Other characters in the book include a young Jewish man who manages to escape the train heading for a concentration camp and a young French Jewish woman who wasn’t so lucky. This book follows the Emmerich family and a Scottish POW who has been working on their farm as they set out to cross Germany ahead of the Russian army in the heart of the German winter. The Nazis were beaten but they hadn’t admitted it yet and the everyday German people had a feeling they were beaten so they started running from the advancing Russian armies. Skeletons at the Feast is loosely based on a true story and set in the last few months of World War II.
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