The Nightingale

This is the first book I've read by Kristin Hannah, and it definitely did not disappoint.

Admittedly, I've never really thought about what the regular European citizens had to endure throughout WWII. (I read All the Light We Cannot See earlier this year and it helped shed a little light, but not quite like this.) The horrors that these women went through are astounding.

I never learned about WWII France in school. Really, I only learned the basics, but The Holocaust seems too heartbreaking to research on my own. I still can't believe the atrocities that innocent people had to endure and am disgusted that it's even part of our world history.

Books like this are so important. It's important to understand where we come from so we don't make the mistake of going there again.