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Warsaw Fury
- Narrated by: Karen Gundersen
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Warsaw, 1939. We mustn't let darkness win.
Natan Borkowski has it all. In line to take over the successful family business, his future is set.
Julia Horowitz lives in poverty. The daughter of a shoemaker, she dreams of a different life—a different world.
Everything changes when Hitler’s armies invade Poland. Natan’s future is ripped away by the flick of a switch of a Luftwaffe pilot. When the smoke clears, Julia and her family find themselves locked within the walls of the newly-formed Jewish ghetto.
On opposite sides of the wall, Natan and Julia’s lives are not so different anymore. As the Nazis unleash a reign of hunger, terror, and death across the city, they must now decide what’s more terrifying: to die on their knees, or go down fighting?
Based on true events, Warsaw Fury is a WWII story of love, courage, and resilience in the face of unimaginable evil from the bestselling author of Beyond the Tracks.