Our only shield : a novel of the Second World War
Record details
- ISBN: 9781926577050 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 1926577051 (tradfe pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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387 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : Blue Butterfly Books, 2010.
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction Veterans -- Canada -- Fiction Police -- Germany -- Fiction Young women -- Fiction Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. War stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at South Interlake Regional Library.
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Teulon Library | FIC GOODSPEED (Text) | 3678683756 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Hastily recalled from a successful career in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Rory Ferral arrives in Britain only to find a war that is being prosecuted with political indecision and wishful thinking. The skills he displayed as a spy in the Great War are once again sorely needed by a small group of far-sighted but frustrated military planners. In 1940, Holland was a prosperous country where an industrious and innocent population simply yearned for peace and the chance to lead tranquil lives. Believing they could escape the havoc and violence of a world gone berserk, they awoke to find themselves governed by a new, terrifyingly brutal regime. Inserted into this shocked and traumatized community, Rory Ferrall soon finds himself caught up with two unforgettable characters: Annika Hammerstein, a gifted musician who refuses to watch passively as atrocities are inflicted on her family and her country, and Reinhold Neumann, a dangerously anxious but clever and ambitious Nazi policeman whose aspirations are unrestrained by conscience.