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The last train to London : a novel
- Title
- The last train to London : a novel / Meg Waite Clayton.
- Author
- Clayton, Meg Waite
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-1451 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 451 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In 1936, the Nazis 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 Žofie-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. There 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. Tante 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 Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad."--Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Jews
- Jewish children
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Fiction
- Jewish fiction
- Jewish children > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) > Fiction
- FICTION > Jewish
- Jews > Austria > Vienna > Fiction
- Vienna (Austria) > History > 20th century > Fiction
- FICTION > Cultural Heritage
- 1900-1999
- Jewish refugees > Fiction
- Austria > Vienna
- FICTION > Historical > World War II
- Genre/Form
- Jewish fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1451
- ISBN
- 9780062946935
- 0062946935
- 9780062966285
- 0062966286
- OCLC
- 1117277547
- Author
- Clayton, Meg Waite, author.
- Title
- The last train to London : a novel / Meg Waite Clayton.
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1451