Traitor Author:Gudrun Pausewang From Booklist — When Anna finds a fugitive Russian soldier in the barn of her village home in Stiegnitz, Germany, at the end of 1944, she hides him in a bunker in the countryside, though she could be shot for sheltering the enemy. Told from Anna's viewpoint, the story, translated from the German, is a tense survival drama. It is also a close-up o... more »f Germans in all their diversity as the war is ending and the Allies advance. There are differences even within Anna's own family: some long for peace and refuse to support the Nazis; Anna's older brother is a soldier at the front; her younger brother, and her greatest danger, is a fanatical member of the Hitler Youth, who would not hesitate to betray her if he knew her secret. There's too much detail about the months Anna hides the soldier, but Pausewang, whose World War II books include The Final Journey (1996) and The Dark Hours (2006), clearly portrays the lives of ordinary people on the home front. The shocking, unforgettable climax shows the truth of war.« less