Rose Under Fire

"After Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein has returned to the world of civilian aircraft pilots in World War II England. Rose Justice is an American pilot determined do her bit. But a fit of reckless bravery leads to devastating consequences when Rose — just 18 — gets caught by the Germans. She ends up in the Ravensbrueck women’s concentration camp, where doctors operate on political prisoners as experimental “rabbits.” Wein is brutal in her depiction of the last, hellish winter of the war, and the wounds Rose and her friends must learn to live with afterward. No one writes female friendships with as much nuance and subtlety. The bonds formed and sacrifices made in their impossible circumstances will stay with me for a long time."