Citadel
Book description
1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance network in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - a group of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. When she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for…
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1 author picked Citadel as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I never fail to read Kate Mosse's books, and when I saw she had written about the French Resistance, I was hopeful she had done the subject justice. I should not have doubted her; it is a wonderful novel full of intrigue and tension, yet one from which I learned about how the Resistance formed.
Her all-female network is fictional, yet she sets the events during a period of extreme change and events that had a real effect on ordinary people. Women's experiences during the period were long under-represented in the story of the Resistance, and this breathtaking book does…
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