Name: Resistance
ISBN: 9780385522106

Owen Sheers

In 1944, after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied by enemy forces, and Sarah Lewis, a young farmer's wife, awakens to find that her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her remote Welsh village, a puzzle that is complicated by the arrival of a German patrol on a mysterious mission. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.

A Novel

Resistance

Melody Izard

I’ve read a couple of other books set during WWII with German soldiers who were presented as sympathetic characters. This one is now added to that list. Resistance is a novel set during WWII with a “what if” thrown in the mix. The D-Day landing was a failure and England is occupied by German troops. Since there is no official British military to protect its citizens the only resistance is offered by way of secret operations by insurgents – made up of mostly untrained citizens who spy and do whatever else is needed to protect their land, their belongings and their families. The women off in the Welsh border valley of Olchon wake one morning to find that all their husbands are gone. They can only speculate that they have gone off to fight the Germans in order to protect them. 
The novel explores the strength and determination and community of the women while also shining a floodlight on the humanity of the German soldiers who come to their valley on an official mission.

Resistance A Novel

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