The Price of Loyalty: Serving Adela of Blois
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In a time of kingdoms and crusades, one man's heart is the battlefield. Cerdic, a Saxon knight,...
Historical Fiction Medieval France Crusades Adela of Blois William the Conqueror
Confessions
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I was at a time in my life where I got to thinking more about people's choices – how everything...
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Inês: Queens of Portugal Trilogy
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An heir to the throne, a gorgeous blonde lady-in-waiting, the king's trusted advisor. When a father...
Historical Fiction Medieval Biographical
Cobblestones – A New Orleans Tragedy
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The turbulent history of Post-Reconstruction New Orleans collides with the plight of Sicilian...
Historical Fiction Crime True Events
Red Snow in Winter
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In the final weeks of World War II, a young American intelligence officer is caught in a web of...
Historical Thriller World War II Espionage Fiction
Another Soul Saved: A Story of the Holocaust
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Once in a generation, a woman emerges whom history can’t forget Vienna, 1941 Monika Graf, the...
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The Scent of a Storm
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A heart-wrenching love story for the ages – inspired by true events Eastern Prussia, 1944:...
Historical Fiction WWII
David McK (3791 KP) rated Hearts of Stone in Books
Feb 9, 2022
Until recently, I've tended to avoid his few works that are more contemporary in nature, only recently (towards the end of last year) reading Blackout as I felt they were 'too close' (if that makes sense) for comfort for me in that there are still people alive who lived through the setting.
I must admit, I did quite enjoy Blackout so thought I would also give this a go, due to the roughly the same (WW2) setting.
This novel flits back and forth between then and 'now' (of 2013), as the descendants of the main 1940s settings character start to discover more about their ancestors - in particular, as history teacher Anna uncovers the story of her maternal grandmother Eleni, who participated in the Greek resistance on the island of Lefkas during 1943.
The whole had-a-German-friend in 1939 thing almost seems incidental to the story (he's not), until roughly about the final third.
And yes, I did pick up on the arguments in favour of teaching history (a subject I did, mostly, enjoy in school) passages.
The Queen's Scribe (Sea and Stone Chronicles)
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A broken promise. A bitter conflict. And a woman’s elusive chance to love or die. 1458. Young...
Historical Fiction Royal History