WHEN THE WORLD WENT SILENT

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Mina has been deaf since the age of five and when the SS bursts into her home and tears her from her family she is terrified.  Germany wants her to use her brilliant mind to help them build an atomic bomb to win the war.  But Mina doesn’t want to help them and knows the terrible outcome.  It is a horrible dilemma for her, if she doesn’t help them they will kill her and her family.  If she does help them, the death of millions of innocent people will be heavily carried on her shoulders.

When the World Went Silent, written by author Ellie Midwood is an emotional story of doing the impossible.  This phenomenal story was well written and had a lot of physics involved.  It was a heartbreaking story of the terrible decisions people constantly had to make and the sacrifices they made in order to survive.  This amazing story is filled with great characters and I found it easy to connect with them. Mina was brilliant and overcame so many obstacles in her life.  This an inspiring story that I highly recommend.

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WHEN THE WORLD WENT SILENT
Author:  Ellie Midwood 
Publisher: Bookouture 
Publication Date: August 9, 2024
Pages: 358
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Berlin, 1941. "We will survive this together," he says, kissing the tears from my cheeks. But what if the Nazis discover what we’ve done?

In this unforgettable World War Two novel of one woman’s bravery in the face of unimaginable evil, brilliant young physicist Mina must make an impossible choice that will change the course of history.

It’s broad daylight when the SS burst into Mina’s home, tearing her from her family as her mother cries out for her. She’s terrified they’ve discovered her secret, that she’s been deaf since age five, but it’s much worse… They need an atomic bomb to win this war, and as one of Germany’s brightest young minds, Mina could be the answer.

If she fails, she will risk the lives of everyone she loves, but if she succeeds, she will have murdered millions of innocent people.

Torn in two by this unthinkable choice, Mina is escorted to Berlin, with the fate of the world in her hands…

ABOUT ELLIE MIDWOOD

Ellie Midwood is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning historical fiction author. She owes her interest in the history of the Second World War to her grandfather, Junior Sergeant in the 2nd Guards Tank Army of the First Belorussian Front, who began telling her about his experiences on the frontline when she was a young girl. Growing up, her interest in history only deepened and transformed from reading about the war to writing about it. After obtaining her BA in Linguistics, Ellie decided to make writing her full-time career and began working on her first full-length historical novel, “The Girl from Berlin.” Ellie is continuously enriching her library with new research material and feeds her passion for WWII and Holocaust history by collecting rare memorabilia and documents. 

In her free time, Ellie is a health-obsessed yoga enthusiast, neat freak, adventurer, Nazi Germany history expert, polyglot, philosopher, a proud Jew, and a doggie mama. Ellie lives in New York with her fiancé and their Chihuahua named Shark Bait.

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