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The Lost Boys

A Family Ripped Apart by War

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The Lost Boys

By: Catherine Bailey
Narrated by: Laura Kirman
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Berlin, September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell, former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German Resistance, is executed for his part in an assassination plot against Hitler. In response to the attack, Himmler, leader of the SS, orders the arrest of all the families of the plotters.

In a remote castle in Italy, von Hassell's beloved daughter, Fey, is discovered just when she thought she had escaped the Nazi net. She is arrested and her two sons, aged three and two are seized by the SS. Fey has no idea of her children's fate as she is dragged away on a terrifying journey to the darkest corners of a Europe savaged by war.

Moving from a palazzo in the heart of the Italian countryside to the horrors of Buchenwald, Catherine Bailey tells an extraordinary story of resistance at the heart of the Second World War. The Lost Boys is an illuminating and devastating account of great personal sacrifice, of loss and, above all, of defiance.

©2019 Catherine Bailey (P)2019 Penguin Audio 20th Century Europe Germany Historical Italy Military Modern War Prisoners of War

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Currently typing up my father’s war diaries from the Italian campaign this amazingly detailed researched book ties in with his notes. Although he only writes about his experiences and not any of his actual work (which was prohibited), and along with other published diaries and books I am awestruck and amazed with how people coped with the brutality and mentality of the Nazi ideology of the Second World War.

Second War war in Italy

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A fascinating and disturbing story.
Unfortunately, the audio was not of the best quality – there was a feeling that it had not been read before it was recorded.

Detailed information about the concentration camps in 1938-44

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Literally unbelievable story, how were these war survivors so brave and resilient?! In the face of unspeakable hardship and heartbreak. A very well written and read true story. I was gripped from the start and either holding my breath or heartbroken throughout.

ALL TRUE, we must never forget..

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A well researched and beautifully told story. I was amazed by Bailey’s detailed and extensive knowledge. A single niggle for me was the narrator’s inability (or unwillingness to try) to pronounce even the easy German place names in a recognisable way.

Fascinating

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Quite a lot of padding, but it’s a story that needed telling and it was told well. Read well too, but I could have done without the female reader trying to imitate a male voice!

Gripping!

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is interesting and apparently well told but the narration is quite dreadful, the attempts at differing voices does not work at all and is distracting and takes away from the book/story.
I will not be having a book read by Laura Kirwan again. It was quite awful.

The story

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I really wanted to like this, as I enjoyed Black Diamonds by the same author. I don't know what it is about this one, I find it a bit disjointed and heavy going. It is one of the few books I have given up on just over half way through.

Too heavy going for me

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The reading is so dreadful as to be exhausting to listen to. Mangled words, puisés and punctuation where there is none etc etc.

Read as tough English is a foreign language

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I really enjoyed Catherine Bailey's other 2 books & expected the same from this one. I found it quite boring though & gave up after 2 hours, it was really slow-going, so I couldn't concentrate & found it difficult to know what was going on. A shame.

Gave up after 2 hours

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