$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - YA
| Reading Level: very good
This work tells a gripping and moving war story set during the last weeks of the Second World War. Gisela, almost 16, is trapped with her brothers for days beneath the rubble after the bombing of Dresden. It is February 1945, in Lower Silesia and Gisela's family is fleeing from the Russian army. They ma
This work tells a gripping and moving war story set during the last weeks of the Second World War. Gisela, almost 16, is trapped with her brothers for days beneath the rubble after the bombing of Dresden. It is February 1945, in Lower Silesia and Gisela's family is fleeing from the Russian army. They make it to a train station not far from Dresden, but during the journey, Gisela is separated from her pregnant mother. In the hopelessly crowded station, the air raid siren goes off and Gisela loses sight of her grandmother, all their belongings and one of her younger brothers. They survive the air raid, but then realise they are trapped underground with hardly any food or water...
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