
The White Rose Network
Based on a True Story (A Heartbreaking World War 2 Novel)
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Alison Campbell
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By:
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Ellie Midwood
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Germany, 1943: “I won’t be able to live if anything happens to you,” she whispered into his ear as they said good-bye, not knowing if they would ever see each other again. The White Rose Network brings to life the incredible true story of Sophie Scholl - one of history’s bravest women, who risked everything to lead a revolution against darkness.
Sophie was born to be a rebel, raised by parents who challenged the brutal Nazi regime. Determined to follow in their footsteps, she leaves for university, defying Hitler’s command for women to stay at home.
On her first day in Munich, Sophie’s brother, Hans, introduces her to his dear friend. When she meets Alexander, with his raven black hair and brooding eyes, she knows instantly that she isn’t alone. There are more courageous souls like her who will fight against evil.
Together, and with others who also refuse to back down, they form The White Rose Network. In an underground vault, Sophie and Alexander conspire in whispers, falling in love as they plot against Hitler. Promising her heart to Alexander is the most dangerous act of all - with each risk they take, they get closer to capture.
As snowflakes fall on a frosty February morning, Sophie and her brother scatter Munich University with leaflets calling for resistance: “We will not be silent; we will not leave you in peace!”
But their lives hang in the balance, with the secret police offering a reward to anyone with information on the "White Rose Network". It is only a matter of time before the Gestapo closes in.... And when Sophie is imprisoned in an interrogation room, staring a Nazi officer in the eye, will she take their secrets to her grave? Will she sacrifice her freedom for love?
Fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Alice Network, and The Lilac Girls will be completely gripped. Based on a true story, this inspirational tale shows that, in the face of evil, giving up is not an option....
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Phenomenal
- By Carmen Gibson on 11-11-22
By: Amanda Barratt
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The Child Who Lived
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Antonia Whillans
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Austria, 1942: In Mauthausen concentration camp, two prisoners dare to fall in love. When a baby is born–a miracle baby born behind the gates of hell–they vow to escape. Inspired by true events, this powerful World War II novel tells the incredible and inspirational tale of two ordinary people who risk everything to achieve the impossible.
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It was a complex story to listen to
- By Elizabeth H. Callison on 03-01-25
By: Ellie Midwood
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The Girl Who Survived
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Germany, 1941: “We live together, or we die together.” A novel that will stay with you forever, The Girl Who Survived tells the inspiring true story of Ilse Stein, a German Jew who was imprisoned in a ghetto - and who fell in love with the man she was supposed to loathe.
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It was good
- By lorri munsey on 11-17-21
By: Ellie Midwood
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White Rose, Black Forest
- By: Eoin Dempsey
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.
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Could not handle the narration
- By Maggie on 03-26-18
By: Eoin Dempsey
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I Have to Save Them
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Auschwitz, 1942: Her entire body trembles as she stands in the infirmary and realises the horrifying truth. She’s a nurse, but instead of saving her fellow inmates, she’s about to be ordered to kill them… Surrounded by thick fog from the nearby forest, Orli stumbles from the cattle truck onto the frostbitten grounds of Auschwitz. Betrayed by her own husband for being a German resistance fighter, she has no one left in the world, and this is now her home.
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Fantastic story.
- By Vimala McClure on 02-27-25
By: Ellie Midwood
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The Violinist of Auschwitz
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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In Auschwitz, every day is a fight for survival. Alma is inmate 50381, the number tattooed on her skin in pale blue ink. She is cooped up with thousands of others, torn from loved ones, trapped in a maze of barbed wire. Every day people disappear, never to be seen again. This tragic reality couldn’t be further from Alma’s previous life. An esteemed violinist, her performances left her audiences spellbound. But when the Nazis descend on Europe, none of that can save her....
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A Stunning Book!
- By Kindle Customer49 on 01-31-21
By: Ellie Midwood
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Emilia
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Sofia Willingham
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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This story is dedicated to all the victims of sexual slavery in German concentration camps, who had to endure inhumane suffering under the Nazi regime. For many years after the atrocities had been committed, both sides - the abusers and the abused - still vehemently denied certain aspects of the Holocaust, and even the victims refused to admit the ugly truth about their incarceration, some out of fear, some out of shame, until several women decided to break an unofficial oath of silence, and brought their stories to life. This book is based on one of those stories. Emilia is a young Jewish woman, whose life slowly turns into a nightmare as she finds herself facing a dreadful choice: to secure her family's very existence by offering herself to one of the men who had put her behind the walls with barbed wire, or perish together with the least fortunate ones.
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The emotions that this book will tear from you!!!
- By L. Cotter on 04-04-18
By: Ellie Midwood
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The Teacher of Warsaw
- A WWII Novel
- By: Mario Escobar
- Narrated by: Zach Hoffman
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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September 1, 1939: Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade. Suddenly treated as an outcast in his own city, Janusz--a respected leader known for his heroism and teaching--is determined to do whatever it takes to protect the children from the horrors to come.
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thank you for writing this book
- By BarbieAlaska on 06-12-22
By: Mario Escobar
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The Girl in the Blue Beret
- A Novel
- By: Bobbie Ann Mason
- Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Inspired by a true story, the best-selling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety.
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Needs a woman narrator for female characters
- By Patricia A Gallagher on 02-23-21
By: Bobbie Ann Mason
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The Keeper of Hidden Books
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Martin
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler’s forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away, and even starting a clandestine book club.
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Audiobook of the year for me, truly exceptional!
- By john on 08-02-23
By: Madeline Martin
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
- The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
- By: Lucy Adlington
- Narrated by: Lucy Adlington
- Length: 12 hrs
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At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop - called the Upper Tailoring Studio - was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers.
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Not what I expected given description and preview
- By Kaeli Mathes on 09-24-21
By: Lucy Adlington
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The Canary Girls
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Chiaverini
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. “Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,” the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women—cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives—answered their nation’s call. These “munitionettes” worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives with little protective gear.
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A Novel Worth Listening To.
- By Ana Reader on 03-17-24
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The Warsaw Orphan
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Charlie Thurston
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality - and that it's the reason she must conceal her true identity. But in befriending Sara, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism.
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Kelly did it again! 🥰
- By Eric Cardoza on 07-21-21
By: Kelly Rimmer
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (German for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism - but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.
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A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
- By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
By: Heather Morris
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- Lynda
- 09-17-22
Absolutely speechless
IT IS SO GRIPPING that it's like your there in that timeliness facing the challenges and problems. I personally identify with Sophie, if there was a time machine built and we could go back, I would stall the man who saved him in real life from drowning at age 7. Putting something right because he was all wrong. The true cancer of that time.
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- Cheryl
- 02-23-24
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True story, factual events! I didn’t know anything about this group operating during the war. It was so interesting.
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- MariaJKamp
- 01-27-23
Amazing
Wow! Love the story and the real, factual history intertwined throughout the books. I have read a lot of WW2 non fiction and really enjoyed this book!
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- V. Temple
- 11-30-22
A story of incredible bravery
I am ashamed to say that I had not heard about the resistance movement in Germany during WWII, so this was quite the education for me. What brave, selfless people Sophie, Hans and the others were. I am so inspired by their light and spirit.
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- Angela
- 04-25-22
White rose
People are finally starting to write about the resistance to the Nazi’s within Germany itself. This story of Sophie is just one example how women authors are ensuring the voices of the women who ultimately changed the course of the war are heard. The White Rose is an amazing organization that managed to create a voice that terrified the nazi regime.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-23-22
Narrator too chirpy
This is the same narrator for the book “the girl who escaped from Auschwitz”. I should have looked it up before buying the audiobook. This narrator is terrible for telling books about Jews and nazi Germany. She sounds way too chirpy for tragic stories. Will read the book instead of listening. (Drove me nuts that she pronounces the name “Hans” “the same way we say Hands”)
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