Publisher Description
Inspired by the incredible true story of a group of ordinary men and women who dared to stand against evil.
The ideal of a new Germany swept up Sophie Scholl in a maelstrom of patriotic fervor–that is, until she realized the truth behind Hitler’s machinations for the fatherland. Now she and other students in Munich, the cradle of the Nazi government, have banded together to form a group to fight for the truth: the White Rose. Risking everything to print and distribute leaflets calling for Germans to rise up against the evil permeating their country, the White Rose treads a knife’s edge of discovery by the Gestapo.
Annalise Brandt came to the University of Munich to study art, not get involved with conspiracy. The daughter of an SS officer, she’s been brought up to believe in the Führer’s divinely appointed leadership. But the more she comes to know Sophie and her friends, the more she questions the Nazi propaganda.
Soon Annalise joins their double life–students by day, resisters by night. And as the stakes increase, they’re all forced to confront the deadly consequences meted out to any who dare to oppose the Reich.
A gripping testament to courage, The White Rose Resistsilluminates the sacrifice and conviction of an unlikely group of revolutionaries who refused to remain silent-no matter the cost.
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My Review:
“Some answers we will never receive this side of eternity. It is enough to know God is present in all of our moments. Our greatest triumphs and deepest tragedies. Our beginnings and our ends.” (Quote from the book)
As I write this review, my eyes are filled with tears and my heart is full. Every chapter of this book is filled with courage, faith, hope, and love.
Amanda Barrett’s novel about the students involved in the White Rose resistance is firmly rooted in accurate historical details, and I’m glad I learned more about them than I originally knew when I started this book. But this author is not only an excellent researcher, she’s in a masterclass of her own in making the lives of these students jump out of the history books. By the time I finished this book, I felt as if I’d personally known Sophie, Hans, and the other students involved in the resistance.
I thought she summed the victory in the lives of these students very well in this quote:
“The world around us may not showcase good. Evil may continue to flourish. Darkness may, in fact, choke us like never before…..even the greatest darkness can be breached by the flame of a single candle.”
The candles of these students burn brightly on the pages of this book. Once you read their story, you’ll never forget the lives of the students of the White Rose resistance.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ECPA best-selling author Amanda Barratt fell in love with writing in grade school when she wrote her first story—a spin-off of Jane Eyre. Now, Amanda writes romantic, historical fiction, penning stories of beauty and brokenness set against the backdrop of bygone eras not so very different from our own. She’s the author of over a dozen novels and novellas, including The White Rose Resists: A Novel of the German Students Who Defied Hitler and My Dearest Dietrich: A Novel of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Lost Love.
Amanda lives in the woods of Michigan with her family, where she can be found reading way too many books, plotting her next novel, and jotting down imaginary travel itineraries for her dream vacation to Europe.
Connect with her at www.facebook.com/amandabarrattauthor and visit her online at amandabarratt.net.