Secure War Girl Ursula (War Girls #1) Formulated By Marion Kummerow Displayed In Manuscript

beginning of a series of historical fiction set during WWII, This book deals with a young woman who has always followed the rules and accepts the life of soldiers, surveillance, and hypervigilance.
She works at a prison with women prisoners and becomes very close to them, But it is an escaped male prisoner who challenges her preconceptions, Not only is he a prisoner, but he is a British airman one of the men who continually bomb her home town.
What will Ursula decide to do Really good read

Once I got past mutter being used as word for mother, I settled in to a gripping story of young German girls getting their eyes opened to realize that leaders can have their own warped agenda, surround themselves with minions who help the government tells lies and issue propaganda distorting the truth.
We should all learn from history and make America great again, I made it halfway through this book and had to stop, Set in Nazi Germany, this book is told from the POV of Nazis, Kummerow goes to great lengths to not call them that directly, but addresses the surrounding characters as such with her main characters being complicit to the Nazi regime.


I stopped reading, because there was a heavy feel that we should understand Ursula because she has a good heart.
No. She does not. She doesn't mind what she's doing until the cute prisoner she likes needs help, Using a power control move like that to motivate her humanity is gross,

The other reason I stopped was the glossing over and forgiveness of German citizens who participated with Nazis.
Ursula was more worried about the man she wanted to marry, barely cared about his death, then went on to her prison job, carelessly supporting the ill treatment to the POWs.
She is noted as being beloved because she used politeness, But there was no point before the halfway point in the book where she actually cared about the POWs, Not until she saw a cute guy and she was commenting how she was worried about being single and not having kids.


Again, gross.

I'd hoped this book was going to turn for the better, but it never did, It's horrible to history in muting the atrocities of a genocide that was actively taking place for those characters, I highly recommend you do NOT read this book, This book is the first one in a series that focuses on three sisters and how they coped during World War Two Germany.
At the outset of the book, Ursula, the oldest of thesisters, was having a form of marriage ceremony which was fairly common in Germany at the time.
She made her vows to a steel helmet as her husband to be was a soldier fighting in Russia who wanted her to be provided for should anything happen to him.
Ursula comes off as rather young and naive initially, She and her husband were never actually "lovers", She believes in the propaganda that the Nazi's have spread and is a rule follower who believes in duty to her country whether she likes it or not.
Her job is working as a prison guard and she is eventually transferred to a wellknown German prison where inmates are those who have spoken out or worked against the government in some way.
As Ursula recognizes that the women are not the monsters that she has been told they are, her heart softens towards them and she does what she can to make life a little easier for them in small ways which earns her the nickname the "blonde angel".
After a devastating night of bombing which led to severe damage to large parts of the prison, four prisoners some how manage to escape.
When Ursula spots one of them in hiding, she is forced to make a decision, Will she turn him in or turn a blind eye

This book was a very quick read for me finished in less than a day and I feel that it would make an excellent book for young adult readers.
It provides a good introduction to wat life was like in Berlin, how the average German felt about the enemy and how one could never feel safe from neighbours or anyone who might be around.
I really enjoyed this. Excellent

As an historian, and totally without being an apologist for Nazis, its always been difficult to explain to people that there were in fact, large numbers of Germans who risked their to save others.
There have been numerous biographies and history books written about the subject, but this author has taken the medium of fiction, an easier read and more user friendly genre
Ursulas character and personality shine through.
A good and dutiful daughter, fiancée, wife, she behaves as expected by her parents amp German society, She reflects both her sisters deviation from the normal behaviour and attitudes expected of women,
I thought that the plot and characters might be very black and white, Im delighted that all are awash with grey.
In other words, the book faces and shows the realities while still being a readable work of romantic historical fiction.

The author had me rollercoasting between sadness, joy, fear, and heartache, and glued to every page throughout the ride.

Ive been fascinated by WWsince primary school when I walked across the bomb site to get to my school gate.
Its a fascination and interest that has never diminished, Books of this nature have in the past been very few, that is from a German point of view, and what makes this book all the more poignant, is that it has its foundation in fact Marion Kummerow uses her grandparents lives and experiences.

As an historian this is important to me there is nothing worse in my reading pleasure than silly historical inaccuracies.
Theyre usually the result of lazy or no research, I found none here.
I heartily recommend reading it, and I will be sticking to the series, Thrilling war novel
The story is about Ursula, a normal German who looks beyond the Nazi propaganda during the days of the war.
Getting steadily disillusioned with the violent Nazi regime, she plans to help people out of it and this is her story.
She is helped by her own sisters as she is plotting against the regime which has taken over their lives.

The descriptions of the book were vivid and the end makes it clear and even in the most inhuman times, even the people from the enemy lines have a heart and act out of humanity that is what makes all people so precious.

Loved the story. A very good read . Ursula who works a German prison guard starts to have negative feelings regarding the Nazi regime, she takes a very big chance on helping a Britsh pilot escspe, Intriguing and evocative of German citizenry during WWII, Berlin: Compassion is a crime,
A prisoner escapes, A guard looks the other way,
Why does Ursula Hermann risk her life and brave the Gestapo to save a man she barely knows
Ursula has always lived the law, never broken the rules in her life.

That is until the day she finds escapee British airman Tom Westlake and all the right shes worked so hard to maintain goes wrong.
. .
He runs.
And she does nothing to stop him,
Torn with guilt about what she did, Ursula battles with her decision when suddenly Tom returns, injured and pleading for her help.

This is her opportunity to make things right,
But shadows from the past tug at her heart, convincing her to risk everything, including her life, in order to protect a man from the nation her country is fighting.
As they brave the perils and dangers of the everpresent Gestapo, will Ursula find a way to keep Tom safe
Or will being on the opposite sides of the war ultimately cost both of them their lives WWII story

Lately I like to read historical fiction books, specially WWII stories.
This one gives us another point of view, We see how normal people who work to survive and see the truth what is happening, Ursula is working in prison, one night they were a target of bombing and some prisoners run away, During search she doesn't say where one of the prisoners is hiding, . . what happened next you will Have To read it, I'm going to read the next instalment of the series What a fun little book! And I say little not because of the content, but because it was a lovely reprieve from some of the larger tomes I seem to have been reading lately.
Atpages I sat down to read the first few chapters, found myself enthralled, and was suddenly infuriated by the cliffhanger ending and desperate for the next instalment in the series.
It was so good!

Despite being a shorter novel, Kummerow manages to pack in a good deal of heavy hitting history, some serious soul searching and moral dilemmas, and a sweet little romance.
I love the backstory for the Blonde Angel in Kummerows grandparents letters, and think that she has done a wonderful job breathing imagination into a passing character from her familys past.
It is heartening to consider the stories of those who quietly resisted and opposed the Nazi regime, the depth of their bravery when it came to assisting those who were being unjustly persecuted.
Great Insight to the German View of WWII

I met the character Ursula, when she played a minor role in the authors earlier novels.
She was a prison guard at the Plotzensee Prison in Berlin which during World War II was used to house prisoners sentenced to execution.
I enjoyed reading this novel that focused on her life , and how she as a loyal German responded to the Nationalist Socialist government of Hitler, but began, like many Germans , to question certain things.


An obedient person all her life, Ursula wanted to be a true, loyal German, As a loyal German, she responded to the positive changes national Socialism brought to her nation in the early years.
After her country went to war, and the conflict wore on, she questioned some of the things she saw happening within her country.
The war was personally devastating to members of her

family, She hated the English for sending their bombers to destroy her city and nation, The death of her husband on the Eastern front changed her,

The author masterfully wrote of the emotional roller coaster Ursula found her cell phone, her fears, and her decision to follow her moral compass instead of blindly following the rules dictated to her.
She faced several challenges, and in spite of setbacks and her feelings of inadequacy, overcame them,

The romance elements in this book were bittersweet, It ended with a hopeful ending as opposed to a happily ever after ending, The story was thoughtful, insightful and wellwritten, .