![]() ![]() ![]() The war reaches their farmhouse as German troops claim parts of France, leading to constant fear, food shortages and many disturbingly close encounters with the enemy.Īt the same time, Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, refuses to stand aside and watch France ruined by the German forces, joining the resistance and putting herself, and even Vianne and her daughter, at risk. From then on, Vianne is fighting to protect her daughter – a mission that is in many ways impossible. But her husband, Antoine, is soon called to enlist. The story takes place in France from the start of the World War II, in a household that has already felt the pain of one World War.Īt first, as the reality of another war emerges, Vianne, whose father returned from World War I a different man to the one who left, is in denial that another war could be on the doorstep. So it is with Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale. Despite their common theme, somehow each writer reveals a different side of the war. I have read a lot about World War II, from brutality of the concentration camps in The Tattooist of Auschwitz to the ‘what ifs’ of Life After Life and the preservation of a French treasure in All the Light We Cannot See. ![]()
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