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I wonder if vonLinden just wanted to hear Julie’s story after she started putting the pencil to paper for him. Sure, he wanted her to think that her life was in jeopardy but her story was more than just her trade secrets, her story was about her life and what she stood for. Sure, Julie is scared about death as she fears the concentration camps as her final resting stop but she wants to tell her story, she feels she needs to let someone know. As she talks about Maddie, you can tell that she is proud and fascinated about her. Maddie was determined to be someone. Maddie’s resolved to learn everything she could about a particular item which earned her the respect and the ability to move higher among the ranks of pilots. Maddie took her job seriously and as Julie tells the story, the imagery she uses was wonderful. I felt as if I were on the missions with Maddie as Elizabeth puts the words down on paper. “The demure Puss Moth shuddered in the wind of their passing, like a marsh hen among a flock of gray herons – each thrice her wingspan, each with four times as many engines, heavy with the night’s fuel and payload of explosives, off to deliver vengeful destruction to Essen’s factories and railroad yards.” It’s not just Julie’s story that capture’s your attention but the real twist occurs in the second half of the book when we hear from Maggie. As Maggie tells her story, the story took on greater meaning and the bond that these two women had, well let me just say, it was remarkable.