Marion Kummerow's Blog
December 17, 2018
True love shows you what's really important in life
Excerpt from Bubbe’s Nightingale by Roberta Kagan, A Novella in The Darkest Hour Anthology
Mordechi left the stage and walked into the arms of the woman I knew he loved. Tears fell freely down my cheeks. He was right; this could be our last meeting. We were all so young and so full of life. It was hard to believe that we were about to walk into the jaws of death. Azriel embraced me. I had long since given up on the idea that it was wrong to show affection in public. I wanted to show my husband how much I loved him in every single second that we had left on earth together.
‘I love you,’ I said as I looked into his eyes.
‘I love you too, Ruchel. Did you know that your eyes are luminous when you cry? I don’t know how it’s possible, but it makes you even more beautiful than you normally are.’
I touched his face. I had no words to say. My heart was breaking. I could feel it cracking like an eggshell. The pain of love and possible loss was almost unbearable.
That night, we made love and then lay in each other’s arms. We never talked about the coming day. But the very idea of it lay between us like a black cloud.
I knew that this would be our last night in our familiar apartment. The ZOB had informants who told them for certain that on April 19th the Nazis planned to liquidate the entire ghetto. And so everyone who was involved went into hiding including Seff, Azriel, and me. We had already staked out an underground tunnel where we would go if the fighting ceased for a time. It was the first night of Passover and I trembled as I thought of the angel of death. Would he pass over our door this time? I asked myself. But I said nothing.
“The Darkest Hour” Anthology
WW2. When the world falls to terror and tyranny reigns…
...how far would you go to resist?
Featured Stories:
Bubbe’s Nightingale by Roberta Kagan
Catriona’s War by Jean Grainger
Reluctant Informer by Marion Kummerow
Killing the Hangman by Ellie Midwood
The Moon Chaser by Alexa Kang
Enemy at the Gate by Mary D. Brooks
The Occupation by Deborah Swift
Code Name Camille by Kathryn Gauci
V for Victory by John R McKay
Sound of Resistance by Ryan Armstrong
https://thedarkesthouranthology.com/
*** All proceeds will be donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum In Washington DC ***
Mordechi left the stage and walked into the arms of the woman I knew he loved. Tears fell freely down my cheeks. He was right; this could be our last meeting. We were all so young and so full of life. It was hard to believe that we were about to walk into the jaws of death. Azriel embraced me. I had long since given up on the idea that it was wrong to show affection in public. I wanted to show my husband how much I loved him in every single second that we had left on earth together.
‘I love you,’ I said as I looked into his eyes.
‘I love you too, Ruchel. Did you know that your eyes are luminous when you cry? I don’t know how it’s possible, but it makes you even more beautiful than you normally are.’
I touched his face. I had no words to say. My heart was breaking. I could feel it cracking like an eggshell. The pain of love and possible loss was almost unbearable.
That night, we made love and then lay in each other’s arms. We never talked about the coming day. But the very idea of it lay between us like a black cloud.
I knew that this would be our last night in our familiar apartment. The ZOB had informants who told them for certain that on April 19th the Nazis planned to liquidate the entire ghetto. And so everyone who was involved went into hiding including Seff, Azriel, and me. We had already staked out an underground tunnel where we would go if the fighting ceased for a time. It was the first night of Passover and I trembled as I thought of the angel of death. Would he pass over our door this time? I asked myself. But I said nothing.
“The Darkest Hour” Anthology
WW2. When the world falls to terror and tyranny reigns…
...how far would you go to resist?
Featured Stories:
Bubbe’s Nightingale by Roberta Kagan
Catriona’s War by Jean Grainger
Reluctant Informer by Marion Kummerow
Killing the Hangman by Ellie Midwood
The Moon Chaser by Alexa Kang
Enemy at the Gate by Mary D. Brooks
The Occupation by Deborah Swift
Code Name Camille by Kathryn Gauci
V for Victory by John R McKay
Sound of Resistance by Ryan Armstrong
https://thedarkesthouranthology.com/
*** All proceeds will be donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum In Washington DC ***
July 14, 2017
Epic Dunkirk Week Book Sale
To celebrate the release of Chris Nolan's movie Dunkirk 50 authors have come together to organized the biggest sale of WW2 novels the world has seen.
From July 21-27 more than 50 fantastic ebooks will be discounted to 99 cents. 📚👍
If you're even remotely interested in this era, I'm sure you'll find great books to fill your kindle with.
We have everything from spy thrillers, war stories, sweet romance, love stories, action and adventure, to murder mysteries.
We have even organized a signed paperback giveaway!
11 authors (including me) are giving away each one signed print copy of their World War Two novel.
You can be one of the winners. 😀
Here's the giveaway:
http://kummerow.info/dunkirk-sale
And here's the landing page for the promo (including a trailer and a fun Top 40 best WW2 movie list)
alexakang.com/home/dunkirkweek-booksale
From July 21-27 more than 50 fantastic ebooks will be discounted to 99 cents. 📚👍
If you're even remotely interested in this era, I'm sure you'll find great books to fill your kindle with.
We have everything from spy thrillers, war stories, sweet romance, love stories, action and adventure, to murder mysteries.
We have even organized a signed paperback giveaway!
11 authors (including me) are giving away each one signed print copy of their World War Two novel.
You can be one of the winners. 😀
Here's the giveaway:
http://kummerow.info/dunkirk-sale
And here's the landing page for the promo (including a trailer and a fun Top 40 best WW2 movie list)
alexakang.com/home/dunkirkweek-booksale
January 12, 2017
Unyielding - Book2 of the Love and Resistance in WW2 Germany Series
Unyielding - Love and Resistance in WWII Germany
The beginning of this book follows Hilde and Q on their honeymoon to Italy, where we get to know them better. Times full of happiness and excitement (of the good kind).
For once they can forget the constant pressure they're experiencing in pre-war Berlin. But despite the wonderful time they spend in Italy, danger lurks at every corner.
Soon they find out, that a high ranking Nazi official has chosen their hotel to spend his vacation. The encounter entails a whole new of worries for Q and Hilde.
But back in Berlin, reality comes knocking at their door. Germany official declares war to France and England, and from then on, things spiral downwards.
Just when they thought it couldn't get worse, the unimaginable happens.
The beginning of this book follows Hilde and Q on their honeymoon to Italy, where we get to know them better. Times full of happiness and excitement (of the good kind).For once they can forget the constant pressure they're experiencing in pre-war Berlin. But despite the wonderful time they spend in Italy, danger lurks at every corner.
Soon they find out, that a high ranking Nazi official has chosen their hotel to spend his vacation. The encounter entails a whole new of worries for Q and Hilde.
But back in Berlin, reality comes knocking at their door. Germany official declares war to France and England, and from then on, things spiral downwards.
Just when they thought it couldn't get worse, the unimaginable happens.
October 10, 2016
8 Persons - 8 Fates - Connected through Time and Space by one Event: Pearl Harbor
I'm pretty excited to be part of an anthology of short stories with a group of wartime fiction writers.
It's called "Pearl Harbor and More -- Stories of WWII: December 1941" and (you guessed it) all the stories incorporate the attack on Pearl Harbor in one way or another.
The collection is a tribute to the Battle of Pearl Harbor and will be released November 1st.
Participating authors are:
R V Doon
Vanessa Couchman
Alexa Kang
Dianne Ascroft
Margaret Tanner
Marion Kummerow
Robyn Echols
Robert Kingsley
