
Weisser than White
by Michael Gordon Powell

Set in 1930s Vienna, the novel follows Christian Drewe, an English gentleman blinded and scarred during the Great War. His quiet life is shattered by the Anschluss and the escalating Nazi persecution of his Jewish friends. When Otto and Anna Friedmann are sent to concentration camps, Christian and American singer Claire Astor hide the couple’s four children in Christian's apartment. Pursued by the ruthless Gestapo officer Major Ernst Schmidt, they orchestrate a daring escape to save the family