It is 1943. The world is in the grip of war.
Miriam Rosenfeld has returned to Britain from the heart of Nazi Germany where she found proof of the existence of the V2 rockets. But she also discovered something far worse, an experience which leaves her traumatised and adrift.
Yet her skills are much in demand and reluctantly she returns to work for Army Intelligence, promising her brother Oscar that she will never leave him again. Yet the war is relentless and she is ordered to go to the Cairo Conference as a translator. While there, she discovers that a British ambassador is the source of top-secret leaks.
On her return to Britain the establishment closes ranks in defense of the ambassador and her findings are dismissed. Even worse, suspicion alights on her, as a young German Jew who is deemed far too intelligent and troublesome. She proves the truth of this and eventually saves herself from the direst punishment.
The Allies are jubilant when Europe is invaded but this joy turns to despair when Nazi vengeance rockets are unleashed on London. But, despite this and other setbacks, the allies push on. In the closing days of the war, Miriam is ordered to go to identify a young man who claims to be Wernher von Braun, the brains behind the Nazi rockets. While there she finds herself in a death camp. It is a place of horrors but it holds a revelation which eases her heart.
Genre: Historical
Miriam Rosenfeld has returned to Britain from the heart of Nazi Germany where she found proof of the existence of the V2 rockets. But she also discovered something far worse, an experience which leaves her traumatised and adrift.
Yet her skills are much in demand and reluctantly she returns to work for Army Intelligence, promising her brother Oscar that she will never leave him again. Yet the war is relentless and she is ordered to go to the Cairo Conference as a translator. While there, she discovers that a British ambassador is the source of top-secret leaks.
On her return to Britain the establishment closes ranks in defense of the ambassador and her findings are dismissed. Even worse, suspicion alights on her, as a young German Jew who is deemed far too intelligent and troublesome. She proves the truth of this and eventually saves herself from the direst punishment.
The Allies are jubilant when Europe is invaded but this joy turns to despair when Nazi vengeance rockets are unleashed on London. But, despite this and other setbacks, the allies push on. In the closing days of the war, Miriam is ordered to go to identify a young man who claims to be Wernher von Braun, the brains behind the Nazi rockets. While there she finds herself in a death camp. It is a place of horrors but it holds a revelation which eases her heart.
Genre: Historical
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