In the early 1940s, as the Second World War raged across the globe, Madagascar was caught in the middle of a strategic struggle between the Allied and Axis powers. Situated off the eastern coast of Africa, the Big Island's location in the Indian Ocean made it a vital asset for controlling crucial shipping lanes connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia.The fall of France in June 1940 brought Madagascar under the control of the Vichy French government, a puppet regime collaborating with N...

Paris, 1942. Daphne Moreau has learned how to survive the Occupation: keep her head down, her voice soft, and her husband's secrets to herself. Jacques is a gendarme who brings home food with no questions asked and goes silent whenever the city turns dangerous. She has chosen not to look too closely at why.Then she looks.When Daphne understands the full extent of her husband's collaboration with the Nazi machinery of repression, silence becomes its own kind of betrayal. A c...

A former village priest shot dead execution-style in a snow-covered field re-opens memories of a wartime scandal around the villages of Poissons-les-Marais and Fouillmont, when young infatuation led to a spate of coldly efficient assassinations.But who's responsible for this particular killing? And why so long after the event?For Inspector Lucas Rocco, it means pushing aside the veil surrounding old Resistance activities and fighting dangerous political con...

Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille**.October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more.**And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricabl...

From the bestselling author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series, a superb novel of wartime passion, loyalty – and betrayalParis, 1945. In the aftermath of the French liberation, Janine Simonian stands accused of passing secret information to the Nazis.She is dragged from her cell before jeering crowds, to face a jury of former Resistance members who are out for her blood. Standing bravely in court, Janine pleads guilty to all charges.Why did Janine betray, not just her...

"The story is brilliantly executed... Nath's biggest success is the sustained atmospheric tension that he creates somewhat effortlessly."- Little Interpretations"A haunting and bittersweet novel that stays with you long after the final chapter – always the sign of a really well-written and praiseworthy story. It would also make an excellent screenplay."- Historical Novels Review - Editor's ChoiceNazi-occupied Aquitaine, 1943: A beautiful young woman is found m...

She operates in the enemy's midst—but the true danger is from one of her own . . . A pulse-pounding WWII thriller by an author whose "action passages are superb" ( The Observer).At the London headquarters of 'F' Section SOE—Special Operations Executive—they're sure Rosie Ewing is dead, shot by the Gestapo while running from a train taking her to Ravensbrück concentration camp.But they shouldn't be so sure.Left for dead, Rosie has been nursed...

'Without the networks of the French Resistance, the invasion would not have been possible' Major General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary ForceDays after France fell in June 1940, Charles de Gaulle appointed Andr Dewavrin to create, from scratch, the Free French Intelligence Service.Recruiting agents among the sailors, farmers, painters, housewives and children of Occupied France, he managed cells of spies acros...

Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told through a series of reminiscences—from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the Germans approached in 1940 to her recruitment and training as a special agent and the logistics of ...

A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelistEarly in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe. They find they are not welcomed by other French groups and thus Brigade 35 is formed. For most of them, their growing up, t...

A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author of I Who Have Never Known MenIn the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden from ever leaving its strange depths. As part of her rigid schooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe. Locked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husband’s desires, twice-weekly, as directed – until she begins...

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRALIn Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in.And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever: Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He's working for them. Because when a...