'Good Night, Irene' review: A women-centered WWII novel from Luis Alberto Urrea : NPR

The author's mother was a Red Cross volunteer assigned to Patton's 3rd Army — she was with the troops who helped liberate Buchenwald. Urrea's new woman-centered wartime novel is Good Night, Irene.

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