num_pages: 312
description: Antonia Forrester an English nurse is nearly killed while trying to save soldiers fleeing at Dunkirk. Embittered she returns to occupied Brussels as a British spy to foment resistance to the Nazis. She works with urban partisans who sabotage deportation efforts and execute collaborators before rsistante leader Sandrine Toussaint accepts her into the Comet Line an operation to rescue downed Allied pilots.After capture and then escape from a deportation train headed for Auschwitz the women join the Maquis fighting in the Ardenne Forests. Passion is the glowing ember that warms them amidst the winter carnage until London radio transmits the news theyve waited for. Huddled in the darkness they hear the coded message the long sobs of the violins signaling that the Allied Invasion is about to begin.
language: English
title: Waiting for the Violins
publisher: Bold Strokes Books