Goodnight from Paris by Jane Healey
My ranking: 4 of 5 stars
Goodnight From Paris is a World Struggle Two story primarily based on a the true lifetime of American actress Drue Leyton. Drue married a Frenchman and was residing in Paris when warfare broke out. Her husband went away to struggle and Drue started working for a French radio station. Drue had the evening shift and was broadcasting to American listeners, attempting desperately to realize assist from a rustic reluctant to get entangled with the warfare in Europe.
When the German’s occupied France, Drue used her married identify to keep away from arrest. Nonetheless, she was nonetheless decided to assist struggle the oppressors. She continued all through the warfare to assist the Resistance whereas supporting networks that moved airmen to security.
Though it is a fictional story, the writer used lots of the particulars of Drue’s precise life which she discovered throughout analysis for her writing. This story actually intrigued me, particularly how People in France had been handled earlier than and after their nation’s entry into the warfare. Drue’s story is yet another instance of courageous women and men who did a lot for the warfare effort.
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Ebook description
In Nazi-occupied France, an American movie star takes on probably the most harmful function of her life in a gripping novel about loyalty and resistance, impressed by a real story, from the Washington Publish and Amazon Charts bestselling writer of The Secret Stealers.
Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. However when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British navy, Drue finds herself alone along with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted metropolis. Along with her profession and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts a chance that may change her life ceaselessly.
Befriended by seasoned wartime journalist Dorothy Thompson and urged on by political operative Jean Fraysse, Drue broadcasts radio packages to america. Her obligation: shake America from its apathy and, as Nazis encroach and France is occupied, push for resistance and assist from the US. As Drue and Jean fall underneath suspicion, Hitler sends his personal message: when Drue’s adopted nation is conquered, she shall be executed.
In a Paris that’s not protected, Drue’s political ardour is ignited. She’s ready to danger something to struggle the enemy irrespective of how harmful it will get—for her, for everybody she loves, and for every little thing she’s preventing for.
AmazonUK | AmazonUS (As a consequence of be revealed March seventh 2023.)
