num_pages: 301
description: May 1940. Hitler invades France a move that threatens all of Europe and three lives intersect at Wickwythe Hall an opulent estate in the English countrysidea beautiful French refugee a take-charge American heiress and a charming champagne vendeur with ties to Roosevelt and Churchill who isnt what he seems. There secrets and unexpected liaisons unfold until a shocking tragedy in a far off Algerian port binds them forever Wickwythe Hall is inspired by actual people places and events including Operation Catapult a sea action in which Churchill launched a bloody attack on the French fleet to keep the powerful ships out of Hitlers reach. Over 1000 French sailors who just days before fought side-by-side with the British perished. Humanizing this forgotten piece of history Wickwythe Hall takes the reader behind the blackout curtains of upper-class England through the bustling private quarters of Churchill's Downing Street and along the tense back alleys of occupied Vichy illustrating what it took to survive in the dark early days of World War II.
language: None
title: Wickwythe Hall
publisher: Black Opal Books