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In 1938 Trudi Kanter, stunningly beautiful, chic and charismatic, was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She frequented the most elegant cafés. She had suitors. She flew to Paris to see the latest fashions. And she fell deeply in love with Walter Ehrlich, a charming and romantic businessman. But as Hitler’s tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed, leaving them desperate to escape. In prose that cuts straight to the bone, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler tells the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journey from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amid the horror engulfing Europe. It was her courage, resourcefulness and perseverance that kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion and that make this an indelible memoir of love and survival.
Sifting through a secondhand bookshop in London, an English editor stumbled upon this extraordinary book, and now, though she died in 1992, the world has a second chance to discover Trudi Kanter’s enchanting story. In these pages she is alive—vivid, tenacious and absolutely unforgettable.
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I haven't seen it in the library, but I will look again. If she just wrote that one book it may not get checked out much. I'll look tomorrow or look in my Kindle. Is it sad and horrid? After reading what is happening now in IsreaI may not want to read it.
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Just found the book. I checked online, but someone has it checked out. I suppose it is under non-fiction and I don't put those up. So unless I check it back in myself I wouldn't see it. I could put it on reserve though.
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I wrote info down and when whoever has it brings it back I can check it out.
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I haven't seen it in the library, but I will look again. If she just wrote that one book it may not get checked out much. I'll look tomorrow or look in my Kindle. Is it sad and horrid? After reading what is happening now in IsreaI may not want to read it.
Oh dear God, no .. it's 1938 and Hitler is just beginning to invade Austria. It makes me think of Sound of Music time.
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I love the Sound of Music. My favorite movie. I am going to put it on reserve and when the person who has it turns it in I can get it.
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Oh mine too and it's set at that time with the Nazis coming it.
It's just a good book I think and I hope you like it.
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I'll look up who has it and when its due back when I get to work.
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Well - it turned out that they didn't have it afterall. I swear my husband said he looked it up and they had it. Wrong! I can't find it on Kindle either. Where did you get yours?
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It was in our Library here.
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They are having the "last chance" part of the Book Sale again this weekend before we haul all the leftover books back to the basement so if they ask me to go up there and help I'll try to sift through all the books and see if we have a copy.
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Amazon has it as low as $1.60 for used paperback.
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In 1938 Trudi Kanter, stunningly beautiful, chic and charismatic, was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She frequented the most elegant cafés. She had suitors. She flew to Paris to see the latest fashions. And she fell deeply in love with Walter Ehrlich, a charming and romantic businessman. But as Hitler’s tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed, leaving them desperate to escape. In prose that cuts straight to the bone, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler tells the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journey from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amid the horror engulfing Europe. It was her courage, resourcefulness and perseverance that kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion and that make this an indelible memoir of love and survival.
Sifting through a secondhand bookshop in London, an English editor stumbled upon this extraordinary book, and now, though she died in 1992, the world has a second chance to discover Trudi Kanter’s enchanting story. In these pages she is alive—vivid, tenacious and absolutely unforgettable.
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I haven't seen it in the library, but I will look again. If she just wrote that one book it may not get checked out much. I'll look tomorrow or look in my Kindle. Is it sad and horrid? After reading what is happening now in IsreaI may not want to read it.
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Just found the book. I checked online, but someone has it checked out. I suppose it is under non-fiction and I don't put those up. So unless I check it back in myself I wouldn't see it. I could put it on reserve though.
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I wrote info down and when whoever has it brings it back I can check it out.
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I haven't seen it in the library, but I will look again. If she just wrote that one book it may not get checked out much. I'll look tomorrow or look in my Kindle. Is it sad and horrid? After reading what is happening now in IsreaI may not want to read it.
Oh dear God, no .. it's 1938 and Hitler is just beginning to invade Austria. It makes me think of Sound of Music time.
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I love the Sound of Music. My favorite movie. I am going to put it on reserve and when the person who has it turns it in I can get it.
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Oh mine too and it's set at that time with the Nazis coming it.
It's just a good book I think and I hope you like it.
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I'll look up who has it and when its due back when I get to work.
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Well - it turned out that they didn't have it afterall. I swear my husband said he looked it up and they had it. Wrong! I can't find it on Kindle either. Where did you get yours?
Last edited by Nip99 (October 13, 2023 3:27 PM)
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It was in our Library here.
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They are having the "last chance" part of the Book Sale again this weekend before we haul all the leftover books back to the basement so if they ask me to go up there and help I'll try to sift through all the books and see if we have a copy.
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Amazon has it as low as $1.60 for used paperback.
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