Background
The War I Finally Won follows the book The War that Saved My Life. It is the story of a young woman in England during WWII. Now orphaned, she is finally able to have the surgery to correct her club foot and be more like other people. Yet, she soon learns much more about the wide world as a German immigrant comes to stay with them.
My Thoughts
This is a good book to transport yourself to a time and place where there is a war going on. In today’s America, we don’t know a great deal about having to go without or having to come together for a greater cause outside our own desires. I think back to after 9/11 and the feeling in the county. The unity and lack of backbiting was a silver lining to the tragedy. Sadly, it was short lived.
This book isn’t my usual fair. As with the book proceding it, I read it because others were and I wanted to understand where they were coming from.
Recommendation
I don’t know if I would recommend this book or not. I didn’t really enjoy reading it and I don’t know what I got out of it in general.