When We Fall

By Carolyn Kirby,

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England, 1943 Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can't get him out of her mind.

In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father's guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for…

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1 author picked When We Fall as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A moving WW2 novel set in occupied Poland and beleaguered Britain.

A dual timeline tale of love, intrigue, and the terrible choices made in war, resistance, and collaboration, during occupation. It delves into the often-forgotten contribution of Polish airmen and female ATA pilots to the Allied war effort, the precarious relationship with the invader in conquered Poland, and one of the war’s darkest secrets, the fate of the Polish officer class and the atrocity of the Katyn massacre.

This dark story is of divided loyalties, lost loves, and outcomes that depend on a twist of fate, and fragile truth subject…

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