At the Wolf's Table is a well written and captivating story of survival under the darkest of circumstances. The year is 1943. Certain that someone wants to poison him, Adolph Hitler conscripts ten women to be his official food tasters. These women will be served whatever food is to be served to Hilter that. Under the watch SS officers, these women will then have to wait an hour to see if they will die. It's a cruel act of torture, particularly when food and other resources are so scarce. One of the women is Rosa Sauer, a twenty-six year old from Berlin. With her parents now deceased and her husband away fighting in the war, she has been forced to move to a small village in East Prussia with her in-laws. The locals don't like her and it is for that reason, perhaps, that she is one of the chosen ones. After all, it's easier to place someone you don't know in a dangerous situation than it is someone that has grown up in the town. As the days go on, the dynamics be...