Award, The - Danielle Steel
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Total runtime 9 hours 36 minutes., Galle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin to occur. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate., The local German military commandant makes Galles family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the Germans; her mother fades away into madness. Trusted friends and employees become traitors. And Galle begins a perilous journey with the French Resistance, hoping to save lives to make up for the beloved friend she could do nothing to help., Taking terrifying risks, Galle becomes a valuable member of the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to safety under the eyes of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. Then she is suddenly approached by the German commandant with an astonishing, dangerous plan to save part of Franc
