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Un Amour Dérobé (2009)

by Mackenzie Ford(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

2266232886 (ISBN13: 9782266232883)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Pocket

review 1: Gifts of War opens in the trenches with the WWI Christmas Truce of 1914.British second lieutenant Hal Montgomery tells his soldiers to hold their fire.Hal faces Oberleutnant Wilhelm Wetzlar in the "informal, unauthorized truce."Hal is proficient in German and Wilhelm in English.Wilhelm shows a picture of a beautiful young English woman (Sam) (Sally Ann Margaret Ross),his fiancé. ...He was in England, prewar, in an exchange course.They fell in love and were engaged before he was recalled to Germany."I have a favor, Hal"...."This is a photo of me in uniform.....Sam of course, has never seen it....Can you see she gets it?" ....The first thing I will do when this war is over is go looking for her.This photo will tell her all she needs to know"The story is fueled by layer afte... morer layer of deception, as Hal meet and falls in love with Sam.The photo remains hidden and the request unspoken.Hal (post injury) is now in military intelligence.His ventures provide the dangerous, fast paced portion of the novel.Til novel's end, we walk among "corrosive" and penetrating effects of war ( on military and civilian).The ending?...no comment...read the story and let me know what you think.
review 2: Heavily skim- read this book, perhaps my score shouldn't count?Without giving anything away, I'll say that the beginning of this book really got me, I loved it. The Christmas Truce was haunting. Could not wait to see what happened. Then... I read further and found that the HUGE moral issue at the center of this book kept me from thoroughly reading it in its entirety. I read just enough to understand the story, and know what happens at the end. And that it all I will say. Moral issues much. less

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