The Final Prepare to London: A Novel

Nationwide bestseller

A Historic Novels Overview Editors’ Selection

A Jewish E book Award Finalist

The New York Instances bestselling creator of Stunning Exiles conjures her finest novel but, a pre-World Warfare II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Prepare and All of the Gentle We Can’t See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried 1000’s of kids out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and one courageous girl who helped them escape to security.

In 1936, the Nazi are little greater than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year previous Stephan Neuman, the son of a rich and influential Jewish household and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s finest good friend and companion is the good Žofie-Helene, a Christian woman whose mom edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. However the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take management.

There may be hope within the darkness, although. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, dangers her life smuggling Jewish youngsters out of Nazi Germany to the nations that can take them. It’s a mission that turns into much more harmful after the Anschluss—Hitler’s annexation of Austria—as, throughout Europe, nations shut their borders to the rising variety of refugees determined to flee.

Tante Truus, as she is thought, is set to avoid wasting as many youngsters as she will. After Britain passes a measure to absorb at-risk baby refugees from the German Reich, she dares to method Adolf Eichmann, the person who would later assist devise the “Remaining Resolution to the Jewish Query,” in a race in opposition to time to deliver youngsters like Stephan, his younger brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a dangerous journey to an unsure future overseas.