France, 1942Having suffered a devastating blow from the Gestapo, Etienne Delattre’s Resistance cell is slowly recovering its strength. Giselle Legrand travels to Lyon to work in its infamous Montluc prison under her third alias, helping the Resistance in organizing prisoners’ escapes. Marcel joins forces with Philippe as the two follow the line of the Comintern in sabotaging German munitions … German munitions factories.
Kamille volunteers to work in the German Red Cross in order to find her missing husband, Jochen, and soon finds herself involved not only with French but with German Resistance as well.
The tide of the war is slowly turning and so does the mood in France, changing from a passive resistance to an open sabotage.
As German forces occupy the former Free Zone in response to Allied landings in North Africa, the Resistance leaders must work fast to unite their forces against the common enemy. But together with the army, SS-Obersturmführer Klaus Barbie arrives in Lyon, and soon the capital of the French Resistance will turn into the Gestapo capital, where terror and intimidation have free reign, and former loyal comrades turn on their fellow résistants to save their own lives.
With maquis on the rise, with pro-German milice assisting the Gestapo with its policy of terrorizing the French population, with the promise of the Allied landings on the North, they will have to outsmart the enemy that will fight to the bitter end. Liberation is nearing, but the time is against them.
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LIBERATION (The Indigo Rebels Book 3), Ellie Midwood
In World War II, the French Resistance battled the German occupation, daring all as they took steps toward the liberation of their country. Giselle, a glamorous author, was imprisoned and tortured by Klaus Barbie, a monstrous and ambitious Nazi, but was assisted to escape en route to a death camp. She was confined by danger to an underground bunker, but emerged to continue her work disguised as a clerical employee in the brutal prison where she had been tortured. She was able to save many prisoners from execution. Etienne was a colleague in the Resistance, who continue the work of the Resistance. After a lengthy occupation, the Resistance grew in numbers, weapons, and skill. Etienne worked in France and internationally for liberation.
In another thread of the story, early in the occupation a German soldier was billeted with a young French widow and her daughter. After they married, the soldier was injured on the battlefield. The widow became a nurse in order to search for her husband in Germany. She and friends who supported the German Resistance were involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Threads of patriotism and desperation weave through the lives of the Indigo Rebels. The natural tension of the wartime situation is heightened by the barbaric conduct of Klaus Barbie and other Nazis. The danger spreads over Germans of good will as well as Jewish victims and French resistants. The book is written well, and worth reading.
I had a very hard time getting into this book s d did not finish it