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  • The Commandant's Daughter

  • A Compelling and Heart-Wrenching World War 2 Historical Novel
  • By: Catherine Hokin
  • Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Sam Alexander
  • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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The Commandant's Daughter

By: Catherine Hokin
Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Sam Alexander
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Publisher's summary

"What is this place?" She lowers her camera and takes in the frail bodies and desolate faces staring back at her. "It’s hell on earth. Where the desperate abandon their last hope."

In that moment, she knows that taking pictures is not enough; she has to help these people....

Berlin, 1933. Ten-year-old Hanni Foss stands by her father, watching the celebrations marking Adolf Hitler as Germany’s new leader. As the torchlights fade, she knows her safe and happy childhood is about to change forever. Practically overnight, the father she adores is lost to his ruthless ambition to oversee an infamous concentration camp....

Twelve years later. As the Nazi regime crumbles, Hanni hides from her father on the fringes of Berlin. In stolen moments, she develops the photographs she took to record the brutality of the camp - the empty food bowls and hungry eyes - and vows to get justice for the innocent people she couldn’t help as a child.

But on the day she plans to deliver these damning photographs to the Allies, Hanni comes face-to-face with her father again. Reiner Foss is now working with the British forces, his past safely hidden behind a new identity. He makes it clear that he will go to deadly lengths to protect his secrets, but Hanni knows she can’t give up her fight. But what will she have to sacrifice in order to keep the promise she made?

A heartbreaking novel about the incredible courage of ordinary people during the Second World War. Fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale, and The Tattooist of Auschwitz will never forget this powerful story of hope and humanity.

©2022 Catherine Hokin (P)2022 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.
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Unfinished!

I feel like the main character’s unresolved issues were not concluded- is there a second book?

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time period

love this period of time and learning more about post WWII. I realize it is a fiction story but the reality of things that happened after are true. it is a very under discussed part of history. it truly is important part we should know as well there was a lot of devastation and trauma for all. I would be curious to learn more about how post WWII impacted the finns and the Russians since the finns fought with the Germans. I know there is a deep hatred between the two countries not sure of that might have started it

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Did Author forget to submit the rest of the story ?

I was enjoying the story and the book ends before the main character ever deals with her issues and stands up to the promise she made herself through out the story. It’s like Catherine Hokin decided to not finish the book. I never wrote reviews, this is an uncompleted story. It just suddenly ends.

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The Ending

There was no final ending. I stuck with it all the way through but thought it was dull. Sorry

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