Dark hours

This work tells a gripping and moving war story set during the last weeks of the Second World War. 16-year-old Gisela is trapped with her grandmother and brothers for days beneath the rubble after the bombing of Dresden.

It is February, 1945, in Lower Silesia and Gisela's family is fleeing from the Russian army.

They make it to a train station not far from Dresden, but during the journey, Gisela is separated from her pregnant mother.

In the hopelessly crowded station, the air raid siren goes off and Gisela loses sight of her grandmother, all their belongings and one of her younger brothers.

They survive the air raid, but then realise they are trapped underground with hardly any food or water...