Resistance

By Sheers, Owen
Resistance
Within a month of the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied. The women in the Welsh border valley of Olchon wake to find their husbands gone. With this sudden and unexplained absence, the women regroup as an isolated, all-female community.

Details

Authors: Sheers, Owen
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780307385833
ISBN10: 0307385833
Page Count: 320
Dimensions: 5.22x0.68x7.98
Publisher: Anchor Books

Description

Resistance is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II.

In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 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 group of farm women, are soon trapped in the valley by an unusually harsh winter--along with a handful of war-weary German soldiers on a secret mission. The need to survive drives the soldiers and the women into uneasy relationships that test both their personal and national loyalties. But when the snow finally melts, bringing them back into contact with the war that has been raging beyond their mountains, they must face the dramatic consequences of their choices.

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