Marina Osipova

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About Marina Osipova

Marina Osipova was born in East Germany into a military family and grew up in Russia where she graduated from the Moscow State Institute of History and Archives. She also has a diploma as a German language translator from the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages. In Russia, she worked first in a scientific-technical institute as a translator then in a Government Ministry in the office of international relations, later for some Austrian firms. For seventeen years, she lived in the United States where she worked in a law firm. Eventually, she found her home in Austria. She is an award-winning author and a member of the Historical Novel Society.

Thank you for visiting my author page! As you read this, I'll probably be writing another story about people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, pursuing my goal to fill the void in English language books about the plight of the ordinary Soviet people during WWII.
I write historical fiction, a genre I love. As a child, I loved to read, and once I had read my parents' library books--a huge collection of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Pushkin, Lermontov, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac . . . to name a few, I used to borrow books from the school library and later from the Library for International Literature in Moscow. Though I read widely, I have special fondness for classical fiction and historical fiction and non-fiction, especially when it comes to researching for my next book.

My first attempts in writing soon brought me recognition in different literary contests. Yet only the third book, The Cruel Romance, went to the world. And that was the first story portraying the sorrows of the Soviet people, especially during WWII. My other books, How Dare the Birds Sing and Order No.227. From Stalin With Love, as well as the soon to be published Too Many Wolves In The Local Woods depict the human dimension of war.

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The Road to Liberation: Trials and Triumphs of WWII May 5, 2020

by Marion Kummerow , Ellie Midwood , Marina Osipova , JJ Toner , Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger , Rachel Wesson , Olivia Hawker

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Riveting stories dedicated to celebrating the end of WWII.

From USA Today, international bestselling and award-winning authors comes a collection filled with courage, betrayal, hardships and, ultimately, victory over some of the most oppressive rulers the world has ever encountered.

By 1944, the Axis powers are fiercely holding on to their quickly shrinking territories.

The stakes are high—on both sides:

Liberators and oppressors face off in the final battles between good and evil. Only personal bravery and self-sacrifice will tip the scales when the world needs it most.

Read about the heroic act of a long-term prisoner, an RAF squadron leader on the run in France, a small child finding unexpected friends amidst the cruelty of the concentration camps, a shipwrecked woman captured by the enemy, and a young Jewish girl in a desperate plan to escape the Gestapo.

2020 marks 75 years since the world celebrated the end of WWII. These books will transport you across countries and continents during the final days, revealing the high price of freedom—and why it is still so necessary to “never forget”.

Included books are:

Stolen Childhood by Marion Kummerow

The Aftermath by Ellie Midwood

When's Mummy coming? by Rachel Wesson

Too Many Wolves in the Local Woods by Marina Osipova

Liberation Berlin by JJ Toner

Magda’s Mark by Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger

Buy now and indulge in more than 1000 pages filled with suspense, danger, heartbreak, and redemption.

With a foreword from Olivia Hawker, author of the Washington Post bestseller "The Ragged Edge of Night".

How Dare The Birds Sing (Book One in the Love and Fate Series 1) Jan 24, 2019

by Marina Osipova

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Are Lyuba and Günter star-crossed lovers? When they first meet in 1933 Soviet Russia, their young love is filled with hope and naiveté until Günter disappears. Her fleeting relationship with him has devastating consequences, forcing her to take a humiliating way out to save herself and her family. This choice unleashes a sequence of fatal events that shatter her life, affecting everyone involved.

In June 1941, World War II comes to Russian soil, hurling Lyuba, along with millions of others, into the inhuman grinder, testing the limits of her strength and resilience of her heart. Will it be strong enough years later to allow her to reveal the ugly secret she has buried from the only person the war has left for her to love?

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The Cruel Romance: A Novel of Love and War Mar 3, 2016

by Marina Osipova

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On October 1941, in a small village outside Moscow, Serafima bids farewell to Vitya, a Soviet officer going to the front. With only moments left together, she places a cross around her beloveds neck and reluctantly releases him into a cruel world where nothing is certain, especially whether she will ever see him again.

Days later, Germans invade her village and take over her tiny house. Serafima and her mother must comply with orders, endure abuse, and stay put, or their village will be annihilated.

As World War II intertwines Serafimas and Vityas life with that of a young German violinist and a Russian intellectual, their destinies are irrevocably altered. Can they rise to the challenge of agonizing moral choices and learn to forgive and love again?

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The Cruel Romance is a tale of love, violence, and acceptance as Serafima is forced to live with what the Germans left behind. This compelling story makes for a thrilling read in a setting and time that comes to life, pulling the reader into the vividly drawn, rarely seen world (Elisabeth Amaral, author of When Any Kind of Love Will Do and Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup).

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Order No.227. From Stalin With Love Aug 14, 2019

by Marina Osipova

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“It is necessary to defend each position, each meter of our territory, up to the last drop of blood, to cling for each plot of Soviet land and to defend it as long as possible.” – from Order No. 227.

Based on the actual events on the Eastern Front of World War II, this short story is a rare account of a Soviet penal company, told from a perspective of a real person, the military prosecutor, Jakov Antonovich Krivenkov, and a fictional character, an ordinary Russian woman, Matryona, both caught in the horror of an impossible situation.
427,910 Soviet men shed their blood in defending their motherland in penal military units. They were to stop the enemy regardless of cost. Eighty percent of them did not survive. This is the story of thirteen of them.

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