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Book Review of The Postmistress

The Postmistress
The Postmistress
Author: Sarah Blake
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


This story about war and the human spirit ranges from a small town on Cape Cod to the London blitz and the mass evacuations of Jews across Europe from the fall of 1940 to fall 1942. Three stories mingle to create this thought-provoking tale a Cape Cod postmistress, a local doctor and his wife, and Frankie Bard, a female war correspondent broadcasting nightly from London with Edward R. Murrow as the Nazis rain bombs over the city. Although there is not a single battle or soldier fighting in the book, its one of the most heartfelt stories of war Ive ever read. And, it resonates as much today as it did in the 1940s.