Carly Schabowski Books in Order

Writer Harry Winter looks back across a life shaped by the Second World War, observing the people around him and their hidden losses. His memories and storytelling blur together, raising questions about what belongs to experience and what to fiction.

Fleeing Nazi-occupied Paris, Michel Bonnet hides aboard a circus train and joins its performers. His growing attachment to Frieda, another fugitive, draws him into a world of hidden identities where discovery could endanger them both.

An elderly man's photographs in a Nazi uniform prompt his granddaughter Isla to question his wartime past. In occupied Poland, Tomasz's efforts to protect his family threaten his love for Zofia and force agonizing choices.

At Dachau, watchmaker Isaac Schuller is assigned to repair a Nazi officer's watches. His friendship with fellow prisoner Anna offers hope, while a secret within the workshop places their fragile connection and survival in danger.

In occupied France, Kasia transmits radio warnings to Allied boats despite the risk of discovery. Her resistance work threatens her family, forcing her to weigh the people she loves against the lives her messages might save.

In 1950s South Carolina, Alice befriends German refugee Jozef after apologizing for a broken window. A girl's death brings suspicion upon him, and their connection leads Alice toward the losses and secrets of his wartime past.

Mia visits her hospitalized grandmother Ilse in Germany and discovers postcards tied to a wartime love. Searching for the man her grandmother remembers reveals a history of separation and survival, with little time left to reunite them.

In wartime Poland, a woman nurses German pilot Max after he claims to have defected, and their connection deepens. When the Nazis arrest her family, trusting his promise to help places their relationship and her hopes in danger.

After the Nazis attack her family in Poland, Ania joins a makeshift resistance group determined to fight back. Her wish for revenge draws her toward a dangerous prisoner rescue, testing her courage and her place among fellow survivors.

Irena works in a Polish hotel serving Nazi officials, where a Gestapo officer demands her personal attention. When her baby is taken, she becomes determined to fight back despite threats that leave her with few people to trust.

In occupied Poland, Marcin hides his Jewish neighbor’s young son and begins a dangerous journey to protect him. Decades later, the child’s daughter seeks help in Washington, bringing an old secret and a wartime promise into the present.

A child’s interest in a bear brings Lena back to memories of wartime captivity and a journey across continents. Her encounter with an injured German soldier complicates those memories, intertwining survival, storytelling, and a difficult love.