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Title: All That I Am

Author: Anna Funder

Narrator: Judy Bennett, Saul Reichlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II.

When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband, Hans, find refuge in London. Here they take breathtaking risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe haven they think it to be, and a single chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart....

Critic Reviews:

"Spellbinding...there are echoes of the best espionage tales." (The Sunday Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

I loved this interesting story, but it does require mental effort to read.

Every so often I read a book that when I have finished, I feel compelled to share it with others. I read over 100 books each year and this usually only happens with three or four of them --- this was one of those books.

Largely the story of the German resistance to Hitler and the lives they lived trying to sound the alarm of what he had in store for Germany and the rest of the world. Based on fact, this is an incredible history lesson as well as being good, literary fiction. Told from the perspective of two characters looking back to that time in their lives and reflecting upon all that had happened. The book will take your breath away as you glimpse inside the lives these people led and the constant pressure/terror of that time period.

Even with as outstanding as this book is, I do feel a need to ding it 1/2 star so the true rating would be 4.5. The reason for this is the shifting time periods without warning or notation. The same character will be speaking and all of a sudden the time moves forward and back so things quit making sense until you figure out the shift. It does make it for tougher reading than it needs to be and I would recommend you don't initially pick it up when tired or impatient as you may very well give up and the book is definitely worth the effort.

One of my favorite books I read in 2013.

360 View

I have read many fiction and non-fiction books on Hitler's rise to power and WWll, but this novel gives me a wider view of how we let it happen, how good people let bad things happen. I solved the plot mysteries before they were revealed, but that didn't take away from the impact of their revelation. The one negative comment that I can make is that the shifts from past to present were sometimes momentarily confusing.

I loved the author's comment about imagination towards the end.

All in all, this was a good read on all levels.

Risky undertaking but beautifully done

I was skeptical at first. I had first started reading Ernst Toller's "I Was a German," which Toller had inscribed to my mother, when I learned about Anna Funder's novel. My skepticism is that it seems wrong and inaccurate to base a novel on a real person's life, imputing feelings and motives without basis. I would have preferred it if she had not given one of the two main characters Toller's name. The stated intent of the novel (stated by the character Ernst Toller) was to fill in the emotions he left out of his own books, his love for Dora and his bouts of depression.