Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Sheers, Owen |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 2/10/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Resistance is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupationof Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II.
In a remote and rugged Welsh valleyin 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight,apparently to join the underground resistance. Their abandoned wives, a tiny groupof farm women, are soon trapped in the valley by an unusually harsh winter—alongwith a handful of war-weary German soldiers on a secret mission. The need to survivedrives the soldiers and the women into uneasy relationships that test both theirpersonal and national loyalties. But when the snow finally melts, bringing them backinto contact with the war that has been raging beyond their mountains, they mustface the dramatic consequences of their choices.
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