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Title::
Far from home : a novel [text (large print)]
First Author value, for Searching:
Steel, Danielle, author.
Format:
Large print
Abstract:
"In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German, she is happy to be back in France, where her husband Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler. Then her world falls apart: she receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie,a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Now, holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject:
Widows -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction.
Attempted assassination -- Fiction.
Large type books.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large print books.
Summary:
"In July 1944, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris. Half French, half German, she is happy to be back in France, where her husband Gregor, a retired colonel, will join her soon from Germany. Arielle and Gregor have thus far been able to hide their private opposition to Hitler. Then her world falls apart: she receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie,a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Now, holding a French passport handed to her by another high-level collaborator, she is whisked away from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety"--
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