White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullĪndrew Piddington (director/screenplay) Jonas Ball, Krisha Fairchild, Gunter Stern, Gail Kay Bell, Mie Omori, Robert C. The highest-grossing American films released in 2008, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 2008 I was chilled by the parallels between Germany under Nazi occupation and today’s political climate.This is a list of American films released in 2008. White Rose, Black Forest is well-written and engaging. I loved her determination to do the right thing. She feels conflict because she’s dissenter and has already been punished the Gestapo. Her choices to help the airman could bring her into conflict with the Gestapo. She struggles to maintain grace, dignity and remain calm and her world and her country crumble around her. I’m sure her feelings about the unwelcome changes to her country echo many people during this time.įranka is a great character. This is a period of history I know very little about. The book is set during Germany in 1944 during Nazi occupation.

I like the way the plot develops in this book, turning up the heat from the opening scene, pulling you along as Franka takes action that could have dire consequences. I knew I was going to enjoy the book based on this cracking opening. I was hooked on this book from the opening moments, when the main character Franka Gerber is plunged into a dilemma which changes the course of her life forever. It’s bit different from books I’ve read before. White Rose, Black Forest is a historical thriller. (Lake Union Publishing, 1 March 2018, ebook, 266 pages, Kindle First) Hunted by the Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever? Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Fervour and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless.

In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.ĭecember 1943.

White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey