![]() I enjoyed it, especially the historical aspects. White Rose, Black Forest is a novel inspired by true events, although the author doesn’t clarify what is fact and what is fiction. Can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever? It is a tense, claustrophobic novel and as soon as he is able to walk they decide to leave the cabin and so begins a race against time, as they are hunted by the Gestapo. Trapped in the cabin they both gradually reveal details of their past lives and learn to trust each other. Both his legs are broken and, having been a nurse, Franka is able to set the bones, and tries to discover his true identity. Taking him back to the cabin she saves his life, but whilst he is unconscious she hears him speak in English and so it seems that he is not who she first thought he was. It is December and the Forest is blanketed in deep snow when she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. It is set in the Black Forest, Germany in 1943, where Franka Gerber is living alone in an isolated cabin, having returned to her home town of Freiburg after serving a prison sentence for anti-Nazi activities. White Forest, Black Rose by Eoin Dempsey is a World War 2 novel which is different from other books set during the War that I’ve read before, told from the perspective of a German who opposed the Nazis. ![]() Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous.This is the second of several short posts as I try to catch up with writing reviews of books I read earlier this year. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman's true identity. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family's isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers. Hunted by the Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever?Īn Amazon Charts bestseller. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous.
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