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Name of Book: the Munich girl Author: Phyllis Edgerly Ring ISBN: 9780996546980 Publisher: Whole Sky Books Type of book: 1930s, 1940s, 1995, Germany, America, secrets, friendship, giving up self, Eva Braun, German dictator, suicide, every four years, bakery, treatment of women, marriage, choices Year it was published: 2015 Summary: Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Br...