Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, WWII, Holocaust 

No one in Europe in the fall of 1939 could ignore the repercussions of the Nazi invasion of Poland. In Britain and the U. S. some still hoped for diplomatic solutions, but in France and Poland and Germany inexorable changes were impossible to deny. Josie Marlow, American newspaper reporter on assignment in Warsaw, is caught in the bombing of Warsaw. A young Jewish mother's in the Warsaw ghetto can only hope that her infant may somehow be carried away to safety. David Mayer, American flyer in the RAF, makes an unplanned tour of Normandy. Jérome and Marie, living an impoverished existence on a houseboat in the Seine in Paris, find their lives takes a turn for the worse. The American sisters, Mesdames Betsy and Rose, continue their miraculous orphan rescue operations in Paris in spite of the approaching battlefront and mobs of refuges. At the French Cavalry School near the Maginot Line, young men are determined to face the real enemy with their meager arms and brave horses. Captain Horst vonBockman, of the German army, struggles with his professional duties and his personal feelings. It is his wife, Katrina, who fears that his embattled conscience is in a "twilight" stage. Finally, Colonel André Chardon and the eccentric enigma-machine expert, Lewinski, are working against time and assassins in order to save the Allied troops being pushed towards Dunkirk. With great attention to historic detail the authors entwine these stories in an unsettling but realistic story set in 1939 and 1940.