This was such an amazing book. It was genuinely difficult to put down and I read about 250 of its 300 pages in one sitting. It was so heartbreaking and touching, and it made me tear up, which I so rarely do with nonfiction. Her story was incredible and it's amazing that she managed to save so many documents of her ordeal.

It's a very unique story in that she was a U-boat (a Jew living in Nazi territory passing themself off as a German) and I don't believe I've read any nonfiction specifically about them. And I found the writing in this to be wonderful. I don't have high expectations for the writing in memoirs about people who aren't writers by trade (even when they're co-written or ghostwritten), but this was so lovely. It drew me in while remaining entirely unobtrusive so as not to distract from the story.

I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in the time period or even as a first attempt at nonfiction. It's a fantastic book and I adored it.