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The Mademoiselle Alliance Natasha Lester is a historical fiction book about France’s only woman commander of a resistance group during World War II. Ms. Lester is an award-winning, best-selling historical fiction author.
- 448 pages
- Publisher : Ballantine Books
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0593726537
My rating for The Mademoiselle Alliance–4
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This is a fascinating book about a fascinating person. Marie-Madeleine, a Frenchwoman living in Morocco, is unconventional and fiercely brave. She loves fast cars and planes, and occasionally engages in intelligence work.
By the start of World War II, Marie-Madeleine finds herself in Paris, recruited to help build the Alliance Resistance Network by a man named Navarre.
I’m surprised that in all my reading about World War II, I haven’t encountered the name of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. A brave woman who managed to evade the Gestapo while running a top-notch intelligence network under their noses.
Mrs. Fourcade was a fierce leader of thousands of people. An intelligent, cunning, and resourceful person whose contribution to the Allies’ victory and the war effort is celebrated to this day.
Besides the protagonist, the book is filled with compelling characters who are part of the French resistance. Like Marie-Madeleine, they are French patriots doing their very dangerous part. The author does not sugar coat the emotional toll this type of work takes, especially at the difficult time in France where even food was scarce.
The Mademoiselle Alliance Natasha Lester is, however, a bit of a slog. It was a very slow read, a lot happens on every page, which makes the reading a bit difficult.
I enjoyed the historical aspects of this book. As always, I appreciated the author’s note at the end in which Ms. Lester shared her sources, as well as what part was historical and what part was fiction.
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