No Room For Heroes

Download or read book No Room For Heroes written by Michael Barrington and published by MJB Imprints. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: : No Room for Heroes, using the French Resistance and World War II as background, follows the lives of two twenty-eight-year-old female identical twins from the Vercors Plateau, Monique and Marie-Claude, as they try to outwit first the Italians who occupied the Grenoble region of Eastern France, then the Germans. Both are members of resistance groups. Complications arise as one becomes romantically involved with a radio and explosives expert flown in from England, and the other with the local catholic priest who doubles as a resistance fighter. They help General De Gaulle’s handicapped brother escape into Switzerland and downed Allied airmen into Spain. After serious acts of sabotage, destruction of railways and weapons depots, there follows dramatic captures and escapes together with harsh retaliation. The climax of the book describes the largest direct confrontation during the war between resistance groups and the German army, the heroic Battle of the Vercors. The twins survive but only after the priest is executed and Marie-Claude spends time in a German concentration camp