Most of the books I read have satisfying endings. Maybe this one has one, but all of the main characters are dead by the end. World War II did not guarantee a long and happy life.
Kristin Harmel has written a number of books about World War II in France. This one takes place in Paris. Ruby is an American who fell in love with a Frenchman, Marcel Benoit. She married him and moved to France while Hitler was on the rise and beginning to acquire the countries around Germany. No one believed he would go so far as to aim for France. No one believed he would send French people away to work or death camps.
Ruby's world is first upended by the death of her husband who was working for the Resistance. Then she promises to take care of the teenage Jewish girl Charlotte next door. Charlotte's parents never thought they would be arrested - after all, they were French.
Ruby begins to help hide English and American pilots who were shot down and send them on through the line out of France, maybe to Spain, maybe to the coast where they would be picked up by English boats.
Charlotte also gets involved in the Resistance in her own way, helping forge false papers for those fleeing for their lives.
If you enjoy stories about World War II, you can't go wrong reading books by Kristin Harmel. She gives you the feeling that you are there taking part in the fight for liberation.
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Thanks for visiting with me. Happy reading,
Kathi
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