This time period is heartbreaking and the oppression is never ending. Different but dedicated and brave, once they are involved in fighting for what is right and keeping others safe, there is no holding either woman back. The story is told in alternating chapters following these two very different women. Violette had already wanted to be an active part of resisting the enemy and once tragedy strikes she is determined to fight for her freedom and for what was taken from her. She meets and marries Étienne Szabo, a non-commissioned officer in the French Foreign Legion, and after a very short courtship he's back to the front line in South Africa.
Nineteen year old Brit Violette is fluent in French, having spent half her life in France. But once they decide to join the Resistance and help those fighting for their freedom, they know they have done the right thing and won't be turning back. At first Virginia and Philippe mostly watch what is happening around them, once soldier Philippe is sent home after the French army surrenders to Germany, their hearts sinking at how their country is being destroyed. She knows she belongs in her adopted country of France and she is not going to run away. But Virginia has no desire to leave her husband Philippe or his family and their friends. It's 1940 and American Virginia d’Albert-Lake is being urged by her husband and family to return to the United States so she can be safe from danger in war ravaged France. Set across the European theater of WWII, Sisters of Night and Fog tells the story of two women whose clandestine deeds come to a staggering halt when they are brought together at Ravensbrück concentration camp. But Violette is no stranger to loss and must decide whether the cost of defiance is too great a price to pay. Then tragedy strikes, and Britain’s clandestine war organization-the Special Operations Executive-learns of Violette’s dual citizenship and adept firearm handling and starts to recruit her. When her mother sends her to find an exiled soldier, Violette meets the man who will change her life.
Nineteen-year-old Violette is a crack shot with an unquenchable spirit of adventure, and she's desperate to fight the Nazis however she can. But as the call to resist the enemy grows around her, Virginia must decide if she's willing to risk everything to help those in need. She’s sure that if they keep their heads down they’ll make it through. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family’s wishes, Virginia decides to stay in occupied France with her French husband.
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