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Looks like I never finished my review last fall and since I just finished a re-read, here goes...

This was recommended to me by my 17 yr niece, who turns me on to books I might not otherwise pay much attention to. She spent a year telling me to read this so I finally broke down and bought a copy. She knows I've been doing a fair amount of reading on stories from and about the children/teens/young adults in both world wars, so this was right up my alley. Two young women in a man's world, doing "a man's job" because there weren't the men to do them. The story is beautifully descriptive, suspenseful and well written. It's a tale of friendship and loss, strength and courage. And the ending left me wanting to start it all over again. Even on the second reread less than a year later, it held me in thrall to the last page.