Warsaw Fury

By: Michael Reit

Narrated by: Karen Gundersen

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Warsaw, 1939. We mustn't let darkness win.

Natan Borkowski has it all. In line to take over the successful family business, his future is set.

Julia Horowitz lives in poverty. The daughter of a shoemaker, she dreams of a different life—a different world.

Everything changes when Hitler’s armies invade Poland. Natan’s future is ripped away by the flick of a switch of a Luftwaffe pilot. When the smoke clears, Julia and her family find themselves locked within the walls of the newly-formed Jewish ghetto.

On opposite sides of the wall, Natan and Julia’s lives are not so different anymore. As the Nazis unleash a reign of hunger, terror, and death across the city, they must now decide what’s more terrifying: to die on their knees, or go down fighting?

Based on true events, Warsaw Fury is a WWII story of love, courage, and resilience in the face of unimaginable evil from the bestselling author of Beyond the Tracks.

©2021 Michael Reit (P)2023 Podium Audio

Excellent!

This is the third book I have listened to from this author and all have been 5 plus stars. I love to read/listen to anything WW2 and these books have been historically accurate. I highly recommend. Narrator was also excellent!

Courage & resilience of the Polish

Full of action and suspense. Loved the romance intermingled with the war effort. New perspective on Warsaw resistance

Step back in time

This is an excellent book. I have listened to all three books by this author and they are so realistic. I have learned more about World War II and how people had to survive. A wonderful read.

SO MANY STORIES OF BRAVERY AND COURAGE DURING WWII FROM THE POLISH…

It’s hard to truly imagine the suffering that was thrust upon the Jews, the Polish and others who did not fit Hitler’s idea of “perfection,” but Michael Reit, paints a VERY clear and often painful description of the kind of torture so many were subjected to at the hands of Hitler and his henchmen.

In the previous three books I read (a trilogy) about Hitler, the focus was more focused on the atrocities inflicted upon the Jews, often before they even arrived in the concentration camps. The treatment of these people (who were guilty of nothing more than being Jewish) was beyond horrific.

This story focused on the pain Hitler and his army inflicted upon the Polish people during his reign of terror.

I very much enjoyed this story while it remained focused on individual people and those they cared for or with whom they were involved. For example, Natan and his father who owned a large boot factory… I enjoyed the dynamics between father and son. I found it quite interesting to see how a careless mistake on Natan’s part created such HUGE problems for his father and his company. One careless mistake of a 17-year-old had serious repercussions.

I enjoyed reading about Julia and her family dynamics. Life was far from perfect for either of these young people. Nathan came from a fairly well-to-do family, and Julia’s family is barely eeking out enough money to keep food on the table every day.

Tragedy strikes both families in identical ways even though the characters have completely different backgrounds, but they have one very important thing in common: they each go from having the security of a warm, loving family to being left completely alone in a matter of seconds. They can both attribute the fact that neither of them were killed to plain LUCK. Neither of them were home when they were supposed to be.

Now alone, Natan and Julia manage to find each other. They both want to fight the Germans, not just for their country, but for revenge for the killings of their families. They both turned out to be formidable soldiers. While fighting, they make many close friends in others who are fighting for the same reasons. Deep friendships are made through common goals and feelings.

Julia, in particular, has to fight just a little harder than everyone else — she is the only woman actually fighting on the battlefield against the Germans, but everywhere she goes, she had to prove that her being a woman at war in 1939 is NOT a handicap.

I found that somewhere between half way and three quarters of the way the book became less about individual characters and their lives and relationships and more about battle strategy and actual fighting. At this point my interest began to wane a bit; not because it’s not an EXCELLENT book…simply because war strategy is not a big interest of mine.

I have to hand it to the author (and the narrator) — both did an excell

Absolutely loved this

It breaks my heart that so many people in Germany shut their eyes and hearts to what was going on in their back yards . Also loved the voice of the reader .

The writing. Mr Riet makes it all come alive.

The story was accurate but not as gory as the truth of the taking of Warsaw. still a very sad time of the world