Final days of ww2 a woman scientist a strong woman. A love story a tense story of a time in history.A book that drew me in to the time the place the characters,Historical fiction at its best.highly recommend.#netgalley#liitlebrown

A gripping story about the German physicist who in Berlin 1938 is on the verge of splitting the atom. The is a book that is very hard to put down and you will be pulled into the mystery of who in the top-secret nuclear lab at Los Alamos has been leaking encoded equations to Hitler's scientists.
I recommend this book to all that love a fast paced story with remarkable characters and well research history. All historical fiction fans will love this one..

Terrific book. Absolutely loved it. Compelling characters and story line. Kept me interested the entire time.

There is a plethora of WW2 fiction out right now and sometimes the story lines get redundant. Hannah's War is fresh and fast-paced, blending fact with fiction, and painting a bleak, yet promising picture during this era. I really enjoyed the rich, historical base and the thriller-like pace. I am going to recommend this one again and again for other fans of WW2 fiction!

I would rate this book a solid 3 stars. As much as I enjoyed the book, I found there were some chapters I was left scratching my head over. The author builds up the suspense .... especially in Germany, 1938....only to get really vague on how Hannah left Germany and made it to the States. By all accounts from other books, trying to leave Germany was virtually impossible …especially for a Jew. There were some unanswered questions regarding some of the secondary characters. The author brings them back into the story only to leave their fate dangling for the reader's interpretation. The last ¼ of the book picks up and there was a surprise twist at the end I didn’t see coming. On the whole, the book kept me entertained and was interested in the historical facts - but I would recommend on waiting until it came out in the library to read it!

I would like to thank the author, the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this novel in return for an honest and unbiased review.

I felt like this book could have been really good, but the set up in the first few chapters had me so bored. There were too many characters being introduced at one time and it just turned me away from the book. And made me uninterested in finishing and seeing where the book would go. So unfortunately, for me, this book was not read all the way through.

I loved reading Hannah's War by Jan Eliasberg. The story takes place in Germany and the United States starting befre WW 11and ending after it. It details the abuse directed towards the Jews in Germany which everyone knew about. However what surprised me was that Jewish people living in the Uited States were also insulted and degraded. Hannah is a brilent scientist who is working on the bomb both in Germany with another German. she falls in love with him but ust leave Germany because she is Jewish. Wheni nthe States she is able to work with Oppenheimer and the other scientist to make a successful atomic bomb.

Although there have been many, many WWII novels in the recent years, this tale of a woman scientist and her triumph in a system dominated by men and poisoned by religious hatred is compelling--tightly written, gorgeously researched and paced like a thriller. Highly recommended.

I signed up for ARC for my book club and this is our first book. The group has not scheduled the month to discuss the book, but I have already read it. This review is my personal opinion, I'll submit a group discussion review once we've done that.

I love books that give me insight into historical events and feature smart, geeky women. This book fits that profile wonderfully. Dr. Hannah Weiss is a complicated woman, doing something important, struggling against the most blatant antisemitism and male chauvinism. Despite the fact that she is a Jewish woman, working in mathematics and nuclear physics, in Nazi Berlin, her passion for her work and her drive to protect her family come shining through. The book shows the struggles of the Jews in Nazi Germany, the erosion of their often comfortable lifestyle as they become non-persons, stripped of their ability to make a living, purchase needed food, move about the city with any freedom. Dr. Weiss navigates the male dominated world of science and research, showing the struggles of women that didn't fit the mold of housewives, or, if they worked nurses or secretaries. She's smarter than most of her colleagues, but gets no recognition or credit, as illustrated in a paper presented that she had a major contribution to, but because she was a woman, and Jewish to boot, could not have her name associated with the research in any way. Dr. Weiss goes from 1930's Nazi Berlin to 1945 New Mexico, where she's working on the Manhattan Project to create the first atomic bombs. This part of the book explores the conflicted scientists, excited at this incredible new technology, but frightened about what they are unleashing on the world, there's also the specter of Communism and the uneasy alliance with the Soviet Union. Throughout the book I learned a lot about the difficult lives of Jews, not only in Germany, but in the USA, the discrimination and antisemitism they faced, as shown in Lt. Epstein as well as Dr. Weiss and her Jewish colleagues at Los Alamos. The other really strong aspect of this book is the loss of basic rights as demonstrated by what the Nazis did to the Jews, large populations in Europe that they occupied and to a lesser extent to all Germans, as well as the restrictions imposed on the scientists at Los Alamos by the US military and FBI. The surveillance of both populations and the suspicion of foreigners and their motives was a recurring element for several characters.

Besides Hannah Weiss, the other really fascinating character is Jack Delaney. He is a man with secrets himself, while at the same time he's trying to find out what secrets Hannah is hiding. These two characters show the impact of your past and how you can move beyond that past and create a present as well as a future. The timeframe of the book is only a few days, but I find myself wondering what Hannah and Jack would be doing 20 years later, although you get a bit of that for Hannah. Jack remains an enigma.

I wanted to like this book. But I could not read it once the words against lesbians started being tossed around. It is possible to write a historical fiction book, or any book, without using those hurtful words. I’m very disappointed in this author and the publisher.

Hannah's War reveals a woman scientist in the mid-1930s to mid-1940s who was beautiful, Jewish, and Austrian. The author starts her story almost at the end (or so it seems at the time) then flashes back and forth and around in time to explain character back stories.
This is a love story that builds the best suspense any thriller could wish. I found the literary references to be a joy and how the two main characters used intriguing banter and multiple languages (with English translation for each) to gain time, understanding and deception.
Since the author set Hannah into a good place at the end of this story, I got the impression that Jack is destined for more in a possible sequel and I hope this one is a movie soon with Brad Pitt, of course.
I couldn't stop reading, it was that exciting.

I really enjoyed this book. I am always amazed that after reading so many WW2 historical fictions there can be something new to read about! I'm not going to lie, the science parts were over my head but the author did an excellent job keeping the rest of the story interesting enough that it didn't matter.
I finished this in a day and will reccomend it to my fellow historical fiction reading friends!

I was skeptical at first when I saw it was historical fiction relating to science, as a chemist myself my past experience of reading things of that genre have been somewhat disappointing as the science is made to sound unrealistic or the scientists themselves are portrayed without much human quality/the idea that they have ideas and lives outside of the lab. This book struck a good balance, the science was delicately woven throughout in a manner that helped hold the story together without becoming intimidating or laborious for fiction. Set just before and during WWII the story focuses on Dr Hannah Weiss an Austrian Physicist working on nuclear fission in Berlin in 1938. Not only is she a woman in a male-dominated field she is Jewish and so these facts compound the reasoning behind the disrespect and harsh treatment she is shown by her colleagues. She is arguably the most intelligent mind working on the nuclear project a fact which her peers are well aware of and they find no remorse in taking credit for her work. The story alternates between her life at the start of the war in Berlin and towards the end in New Mexico where she is posted to contribute to the development of the US atomic bomb. Enter here Jack Delaney, certain that somebody is divulging the secrets of the project to the Germans for the development of their own device, Dr Weiss is his top suspect and as we learn of her history with Dr Stefan Frei it is easy to understand how one might reach this conclusion.
The storyline is gripping you can feel all at once the strength, emotion, and intelligence of Hannah as she recounts her story and Delaney's character is well developed also allowing you understand how he feels Hannah might be naive in spite of her brilliance. Eliasberg reveals to us a different kind of contribution that women made to the war effort, one which, due to the way credit is given in science, could be easily lost and buried in a pile of untold stories.