Rose Under Fire

Rose Under Fire is a young adult historical novel by Elizabeth Wein, set in World War II and published in 2013.

The novel follows Rose Justice, an 18-year-old American volunteer Air Transport Auxiliary pilot who is captured by the Luftwaffe on a flight in France in 1944, and is sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Imprisoned together with Polish victims of Nazi human experimentation and Red Army prisoners of war, she survives the camp thanks to her poetry and friendship with the other captives, eventually escaping to later participate in the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials and the Doctors' Trial against Nazi war criminals.

Publishers Weekly wrote in a starred review of the novel that "Wein excels at weaving research seamlessly into narrative and has crafted another indelible story about friendship borne out of unimaginable adversity".

[2] Barrie Hardymon of NPR, comparing it to Code Name Verity, wrote that Rose Under Fire is "a quieter, less breathless read, which ultimately makes it that much more devastating.