Episodi

  • Chapter 8: The Family Table
    Oct 23 2026

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    There are no cars left on the hill, but one black car always has petrol. When the most feared SS officer in the district comes up the lane and sits down in her father's place at the table, Lena watches her family bend around him. In the pantry she sees something she doesn't understand, and she's told she saw nothing.

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    22 min
  • Chapter 4: Flak
    Oct 23 2026

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    Six hours of engines and oxygen checks every five minutes give way to black bursts of flak over Munich. Bombs away, and then something goes very wrong beneath the radio room, leaving Will seconds to make choices he'll carry for the rest of his life. Somewhere below lie a valley, a lake, and the snow-covered Alps.

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    25 min
  • Chapter 1: Taps
    Oct 22 2026

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    Frankenmuth, Michigan, October 2007: Katie Reinhart drives slowly down Main Street, the way her grandfather taught her, to bury him with military honors. Will Reinhart fixed the town's radios, sang in the choir, and never talked about the war. But at the graveside two old men trade a few quiet words that tell Katie there is a great deal she was never told.

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    19 min
  • Chapter 7: Splints
    Oct 23 2026

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    Lena begins stealing in small pieces: old shirts, a horse blanket, a splash of her father's schnapps. A broken flyer can't heal on bread and good intentions, though, and her careful secret is about to belong to more than one person. In the cold barn, care turns into routine, and a strip of silk carries the print of her hand.

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    24 min
  • Chapter 6: The Farmer's Daughter
    Oct 23 2026

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    It's Monday morning on the Bruggerhof, a farm high above Bühl am Alpsee, and over breakfast nineteen-year-old Lena hears about the bombs that killed six people in town and the enemy parachutes coming down in the hills. Then she climbs to the old back barn and finds she isn't alone. What she does next will bind her to a secret.

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    23 min