Farrant, Natasha. What We Did for Love.
Enslow
2014
208p
$17.95
ISBN 978-1-62324-028-8 hs/adult Historical fiction VG-BN
What We Did For Love is based on a true story about a little village in France where the
Nazis ordered the whole village into the town square and massacred
everyone. This is a fictional romance
that takes place in the months and days leading up to the massacre. Arianne and Luc are teenagers in love, and
unbeknownst to Arianne,
Luc has been doing some work for the Resistance. The day he tells her he is going to join a
group of Resistance fighters and leave, there is a huge train explosion, and
his name is implicated. The Nazis come
looking for him, and the rest is brutally violent and unfortunately, it really
happened.
The book may take a second reading, even by the most sophisticated of readers. It appears that characters are being introduced willy nilly, and it is a little bit hard to keep track of them in the first part of the book. Later they come into play more, and things fall into place, but there were moments of confusion for this reader. The Afterword explains what really happened in the village of Oradour sur Glane in June 1944, and it is possibly that this should have appeared at the beginning of the book. However, even with its faults, this is a gripping read that teaches yet another aspect of World War 2 from the point of view of a young French girl.
Summary: Based on a true story about a little village in France where the
Nazis ordered the whole village into the town square and massacred
everyone. This is a fictional romance
story that takes place in the months and days leading up to the massacre.
World War
II-Fiction, French Resistance-Fiction --Carol
Kennedy
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