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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 Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.

Eva’s story reveals that she never joined the Nazi party, had Jewish friends, and was credited at the Nuremberg Trials with saving 35,000 Allied lives. As Anna's journey leads back through the treacherous years in wartime Germany, it uncovers long-buried secrets and unknown reaches of her heart to reveal the enduring power of love in the legacies that always outlast war.

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7 January 2016
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01AC4FHI8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Whole Sky Books; 1st edition (7 January 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2908 KB
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As she writes fiction and nonfiction, Phyllis Edgerly Ring watches for the noblest possibilities in the human heart. She's always curious to discover how history, culture, relationships, spirituality, and the natural world influence us and point the way for the human family on our shared journey.

Her newest novel, The Munich Girl: A Novel of the Legacies That Outlast War, traces a pathway of love and secrets in WWII Germany when protagonist Anna Dahlberg discovers that her mother shared a secret friendship with Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun. Her journey to discover the truth about this, and her own life, will challenge most every belief she has about right and wrong.

The author has worked as writer, editor, nurse, tour guide, program director at a Baha'i conference center, taught English to kindergartners in China, and served as instructor for the Long Ridge Writer's Group. She has written for such publications as Christian Science Monitor, Ms., Writer's Digest, and Yankee, and also published several nonfiction books about creating balance between the spiritual and material aspects of life. More information can be found at her blog, Leaf of the Tree: https://phyllisedgerlyring.wordpress.com/

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Liz

Amazing, fascinating and deep

Reviewed in Australia on 16 April 2020

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Loved this fascinating look at Eva Braun and Germany during WWII.

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Judithhb

I thoroughly recommend this book

Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2017

This is another book about World War 2 and the legacies that outlast any war. This is the story of a Munich Girl who in fact, was Eva Braun Hitler's mistress and the friendship between two women that began as young girls and survived through all the barbarity and ugliness of war.
We are introduced to the story by Anna a young married woman who lives in New Hampshire with a self-indulgent husband for whom she puts everything aside. After her mother's death, she finds a hidden treasure of mementoes of the war and begins to find out more about her mother and her secret, elusive friend. After surviving a horrific accident in a burning plane, during which her (unfaithful) husband dies, Anna decides to find out more about her mother's life during those years in wartime Germany. It's a book to make you think and although it's fiction, it led me to find out more about the elusive Eva Braun and her place in Hitler's life. I thoroughly recommend this book.
Note - I was given a copy of this book by the author to read and in exchange, I choose to post this review.

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Jon Dee

Some Stones Are Best Left Unturned

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2018

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As I'm sitting in front of the laptop trying to review "The Munich Girl", an historical fiction / romance novel by Phyllis Edgerly Ring, my mind stutters. How does one sum-up an emotional roller-coaster ride, which not only sees the highs and lows of its protagonist's story but of WWII, Adolf Hitler and Eva Brown's.

Anna is anything but a confident woman. She is normally full of self -doubt, and does her best to attend to her husband's needs and demands, serving as both his academic editor, and housewife, while helping him to cost-effectively run his late father's WWII magazine.
All this is about to change, as Anna discovers a link between her late mother Peggy (who's half German) and Eva Brown, the notorious tyrant's mistress. A simple article which Anna sets upon to write for the magazine spirals into a quest after her mother's old life in Germany during the war, when an old manuscript that Peggy had written resurfaces.
Oh, and there's Hannes. The mysterious German who pops into her life and seems to be on top everything, especially when she needs him the most. This is a story within a story within a story, that will take us on a journey to Eva Brown's life story.

I am rather ambiguous about "The Munich Girl". Let's start with the one undoubtful thing: Ms. Ring's writing is superb. It is fluent, descriptive and accurate. The fact that some of the dialogues are in German (and translated) does not hurt the above, and in fact that is hardly noticed. Great job by the author on that front.

The fact that Anna discovers a manuscript is okay, however Anna's time-line is not continuous. It's divided to before/after a significant event, and I have found myself struggling at times to understand whether this is the "pre-event" Anna or not.

While the story itself is very compelling, and has twists and turns, some plot milestones were a bit too "convenient" for me. Without giving away any spoilers: While the Peggy/Eva Brown manuscript was fascinating, I found Anna's story hard to believe, especially her husband's fate, who is probably the most underdeveloped character in the book.

In a complete contrast, all the other characters were extremely developed and complex, which brings to my ultimate issue with "The Munich Girl":
The novel gives a voice to Eva Brown, portraying her in a complex psychological light, and at times as kind and compassionate. Personally, whether Ms. Brown was like that or not, I find it hard to cope with novels which romanticize, to any extent, Nazi Germany and its key figures. Sure, there were good Germans at the time, yet I think their contribution to the German history is negligible compared to the atrocities done by the German state and its accomplices.
Whether Eva Brown was among them or not, is irrelevant, she has made her historical choice by being the lover of a mad mass murderer, and standing by his side (and if she indeed prevented his order to execute the POWs in Germany as this novel claims, it was too little too late).

I had a similar issue with "Alone in Berlin" by Hans Fallada, but while "Alone in Berlin" handles the lives of everyday people, I found that Ms. Ring - perhaps unintentionally - had made the Hitler-Brown relationship to a touching love affair. A stone that I thought would have been best left unturned.

The novel gets 4/5 stars, I did enjoy reading it, although as I mentioned it has some complications. I'll let you be the moral judges of the historical events.

The reviewer is the author of And The Wolf Shall Dwell", a political-spy thriller.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 August 2021

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I understand this is a fictional book, but the huge amount of detail shows that the author did extensive research on the life of Eva Braun. I thought I knew a great deal about this period in history, but I learned a lot more in this book. The fictional parts were woven in seamlessly and it flowed from beginning to end. I loved it. This is the first book I’ve ever read that features Hitler’s mistress, and although I found it difficult to relate to anyone who could even like such a person but the author has portrayed her character with so much pathos I found myself caring about her.

Dave

Anna's history isn't like yours.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2018

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This is a wonderful eye opening book that tells the story of the human and caring side of a family and a friend that was never mentioned and a history her daughter Anna never knew. Anna trapped in a loveless marriage is unaware that her life is about to change after her Mum (Peggy) dies. Even more surprising is the history her Mum has that she only found out about after she died and her husband well i let you read that bit. Her Mums friend is the woman in Hitler's life Eva Braun (whom her Mum had some close shaves with) .. This is a story that tells the human side of a relationship in the build up and during the The Second World War based on people rather than guns and hate, with the story off Anna in 1995. It turns out that Anna's Mum met Eva when they were both young teenagers on a train when Peggy helps Eva and befriends her at a railway station and they share a journey from the Austrian border deeper into Germany. What follows is the moving story of that relationship and how Eva is very different to her partner why she chooses the path she does is a mystery but isn't that the case with most out us but obviously not with such evil. It is true that some are blinded by love to such a unbelievable level that just seems beyond understanding, it as in this case stay with someone after they change in such a unbelievable way. I have to remind myself that the vast majority of soldiers that fought for the Germans did so with full commitment to what they felt was a true and justifiable cause, as has been the case throughout history for so many Armies it would be hard to count them all.
It is often hard to see good in the lives that history has blackened I'm not referring to the Nazis but to individuals and so this story is about individuals that have partners with strongly opposing views as in the men in their lives are on different sides of the war one a Austrian the other a German Jew.
This is a deep and challenging book that I think is for both men and women there is the love story but there is a lot more to it than this there is the well I'm not going to spoil it but I think this is a must read book and I'm very glad i have. I hope you do as well.

Rosie

Fabulous read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2020

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I was given a complimentary copy of this book via Voracious Readers in return of giving an honest review.

Well what can I say - I read this book in two days. This a story of this ladies Peggy, Eva and Anna. It’s based in the era of Hitler and described the lives of the ladies above through the history of war, their life’s and loves

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would highly recommend reading this. Definitely a book I will be reading again.

Kindle Customer. Maureen Perkins

An amazing unputdownable book !!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2018

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I really didn't want to finish reading this as the book was fascinating and so well written ! Hope my next book is as good.

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