The Last Train to London

National bestseller A Historical Novels Review Editors’ Choice A Jewish Book Award Finalist The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet,a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot Seecentering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe–and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety. In 1936the Nazi are little more than loudbrutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neumanthe son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and companion is the brilliant ┼╜ofie-Helenea Christian girl whose mother edits a progressiveanti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents’ carefree innocence is shattered when the Nazis’ take control. There is hope in the darknessthough. Truus Wijsmullera member of the Dutch resistancerisks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss–Hitler’s annexation of Austria–asacross Europecountries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truusas she is knownis determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reichshe dares to approach Adolf Eichmannthe man who would later help devise the \