Madeleine's War
by:
Peter Watson (author)
A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944 Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it...
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A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-Day in 1944 Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385539791 (0385539797)
ASIN: 385539797
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Author Peter Watson bases his story on the real-life young men and women recruited by Churchill’s Special Operations Executive to be parachute-dropped behind enemy lines. Their orders were to “set Europe ablaze” by helping the Resistance and sending intelligence back to England. The likelihood of ...
I'm a huge fan of stories that take place during WWII and Madeleine's War by Peter Watson was the perfect blend of romance and history! It was definitely a unique perspective on a very well know topic. One of the best war novels I have ever read and I couldn't put it down. The book takes you on a ri...