EAN: 9780062946942

THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON - MEG WAITE CLAYTON KA...

From the New York Times bestselling novelist Meg Waite Clayton comes a powerful novel  set in
the pre?World War II era  based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand
children from Nazi-occupied Europe?and of one brave woman who helped them escape. In 1936  the
Nazis are little more than brutish boors to fifteen-year-old Stephan Neuman  a budding
playwright and the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family in Vienna  Austria. Stephan's
best friend and companion is the brilliant ?ofie-Helene  a Christian girl whose mother edits a
progressive  anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered when
Hitler's forces advance. There is hope in the darkness  though. Truus Wijsmuller  a childless
Dutchwoman  risks her life to smuggle children out of Nazi-occupied lands to the nations that
will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous as countries across Europe
close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape after the Anschluss 
Hitler's annexation of Austria. Tante Truus  as she is known  is determined to save as many
children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in young 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.? Truus then sets off in a race against time to lead hundreds
of children on a perilous journey to freedom.

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