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My Real Name is Hanna By Tara Lynn Masih. This is a book of Hanna Slivka and her family’s many struggles during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. Hanna, fourteen at the time and as the occupation continues, Hanna wonders if she will be able to survive long enough to see her next birthdays. Her family is well respected in their small community, they are able to utilize news from other parts of the country to try and stay ahead of the Gestapo. The book begins with the Silvia’s hiding different people in their barn for usually overnight. Eventually the family feels it a time to go into hiding themselves they find themselves in a cabin in the woods for a short period of time. The eventually realize that the SS are drawing nearer in their searches for any of the remaining Jews within the area. The family finds their way into a dark (mostly uninhabited) cave. With the constant worry of food, and survival necessitates always running on low, the family is always...

The Girl in the Blue Beret By Bobby Ann Mason. Marshall Stone, an ex-pilot forced into retirement from his commercial airline. Stone decides after he no longer has any obligation to the airline, that he is going to get in touch with the various individuals who helped him and his air crew escape German occupied France. Marshall was one of the pilots who flew a bomber for the allies during the Second World War. On a return mission Stone and his crew are shot out of the sky, and are forced to initiate and emergency landing. Once on the ground in France, the surviving crew attempt to escape the German forces. Along with the aid of the surrounding villagers the crew manage to evade capture, and return home. This book was a difficult read for me, it was the complexity of the reading, but it was the dryness and the story itself. On my Goodreads account I gave this book ⭐⭐/5. I think one of the fatal flaws of this book for me was Marshall Stone’s character. Stone is obsessed with every...