{"product_id":"the-last-train-to-london-a-novel","title":"The Last Train to London A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice * A Jewish Book Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An absolutely fascinating, beautifully rendered story of love, loss, and heroism in the dark days leading up to World War II. . . . A glowing portrait of women rising up against impossible odds to save children.\" --Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Alone and The Nightingale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe--and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Zofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis' take control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss--Hitler's annexation of Austria--as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the \"Final Solution to the Jewish Question,\" in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Zofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47590167740671,"sku":"*R0013688*","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/10866953482210.jpg?v=1764089370","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-last-train-to-london-a-novel","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}