' A compelling beautifully written story of resilience friendship and survival.'
Heather Morris author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz The thrilling story of how nine young
women captured by the Nazis for being part of the Resistance launched a breathtakingly bold
escape and found their way home. As the Second World War raged across Europe and the Nazi
regime tightened its reign of horror and oppression nine women some still in their teens
joined the French and Dutch Resistance. Caught out in heroic acts against the brutal occupiers
they were each tortured and sent east into Greater Germany to a concentration camp where they
formed a powerful friendship. In 1945 as the war turned against Hitler they were forced on a
Death March facing starvation and almost certain death. Determined to survive they made a bid
for freedom and so began one of the most breathtaking tales of escape and resilience of the
Second World War. The author is the great-niece of one of the nine and she interweaves their
gripping flight across war-torn Europe with her own detective work uncovering the
heart-stopping escape and survival of these heroes who fought fearlessly against Nazi Germany
and lived to tell the tale. Buy Gwen Strauss' s next book Milena and Margarete now
--------- ' A truly extraordinary tale beautifully written one that chills and excites
[A] work of rare passion power and principle' Philippe Sands author of East-West Street
and The Ratline ' Utterly gripping' Anna Sebba author of Les Parisiennes ' The
Nine is poignant powerful and shattering distilling the horror of the Holocaust through the
lens of nine unforgettable women... ' Kate Quinn New York Times bestselling author of The
Rose Code and The Alice Network
