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Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
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East Prussia, winter 1945. As the Red Army advances, refugees flee towards the Baltic coast through snow, bombardment and collapsing German authority. Lithuanian nurse Joana, Polish teenager Emilia and Prussian art restorer Florian carry different secrets, while naval recruit Alfred waits aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, the ship intended to carry thousands away from the fighting.
Their paths converge during the vast evacuation from East Prussia, forcing strangers divided by nationality and experience to depend upon one another. The voyage that appears to promise safety instead leads them towards the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, where individual choices of courage, selfishness and sacrifice unfold within one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history.
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