Last Train to Istanbul

I got this Kindle book for free on one of Amazon's promotions, something about Books in Translation Day or something, and I have this weird thing where I kind of judge books that are free - if they're free, they must not be that good? or something? - so it's been sitting there for over a year and I'd skip over it all the time.

Admittedly, vacation probably wasn't the best place to read this. It's not a relaxing book. It's a WWII book, set mostly in Turkey and France, about Turkish families and diplomats living in Ankara/Paris/Istanbul/Marseilles — some of whom are Jewish, some of who are revolutionaries, and some of whom just want to take care of the bureaucracy without getting Turkey into a war — and an attempt to get Turkish passports and documentation to everyone who wants to get out of Paris and get back to neutral Istanbul while they still can, since the Nazis had begun rounding up Jews throughout France. Is is very suspenseful, up to the very end.

Though I'm not sure of the accuracy of this book, having never read anything else about Turkey during this time period, it gave me a lot to think about in regards to the countries that didn't want to get involved on the battlefront, but still protected others the best they could.