When Morning Comes

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Summary: I could not put this book down until finished!
Review: A story of love and resistance in World War II France, based on real persons and real events. The book slowly unreels like a movie, capturing the fear and the despair and the daring of those Jews who chose to fight the Nazis as well as the French collaborators. As events unfold the suspence is breathtaking. A worthy effort by a skilled storyteller.

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Summary: A Heroic Story
Review: I found this story to be heroic as well as a fast and enjoyable read. Learning about World War II France under the Nazis as seen through the eyes of a young woman who chooses to go down fighting is so much more satisfying than reading the dry facts of a text book. I had a crystal clear picture of Vichy France as well as the collaborators and the resistance. Although I always knew that France wasn't a true friend to America, I now understand more clearly the roots of the anti-semetic and anti-American mindset of modern-day France.

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Summary: A Heroic Story
Review: I found this story to be heroic as well as a fast and enjoyable read. Learning about World War II France under the Nazis as seen through the eyes of a young woman who chooses to go down fighting is so much more satisfying than reading the dry facts of a text book. I had a crystal clear picture of Vichy France as well as the collaborators and the resistance. Although I always knew that France wasn't a true friend to America, I now understand more clearly the roots of the anti-semetic and anti-American mindset of modern-day France.

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Summary: Story of war and intrigue
Review: Readers who like Alan Furst's novels will enjoy When Morning Comes. It shares the background of doomed Europe of the 1940s and a similar atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal. A good read, with little-known details about the role of Jews in the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied France.

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Summary: I could not put this book down until finished!
Review: This is a wonderful, absorbing novel based on a true-life story of a Jewish woman who worked in the French underground in Paris during World War II. It is beautifully written. The woman's family lived comfortably in Germany, then moved to Paris for "safety." But when the Nazis take over France (or most of it), her life becomes a living hell, as Jews are forced to wear a yellow star and denied access to the most basic necessities of life, then rounded up (by the French!) and carted away to death camps.
Not only is the book an absorbing read, it presents a vividly researched portrait of daily life in France under Nazi occupation, with details closely observed. Jews become hunted animals, treated as such by their former neighbors.
It is an important book. Everyone should read it!

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Summary: Beautifully informed novel of resistance France
Review: This richly detailed work pulls the reader willy-nilly into the alleys of Paris and the resistance niches of wartime years. It is for those for whom this era seems vague history, as well as for those for whom it played a real-life role. The author's prior research and non-fiction work, along with much writer's craft, clearly made her the ideal person to produce this semi-biographical winner.