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Clash by Night (A World War II Romantic Drama)
by Doreen Owens Malek
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United by love,
divided by warAs the German war machine claims Europe, tanks roll into the peaceful French village of Fains Les Sources, and the brave French Resistance fighters wage their desperate struggle for freedom. But for three proud, passionate women, the same fierce conflict that rages throughout France burns in their own hearts…and will forever change their lives.From the sun-drenched beauty of the French countryside to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the dark and terrible days of the Occupation to the glory of liberation, this is the magnificent story of the men and women, lovers and enemies, whose passionate dreams and undying patriotism shape the destiny of their land and their lives.
divided by warAs the German war machine claims Europe, tanks roll into the peaceful French village of Fains Les Sources, and the brave French Resistance fighters wage their desperate struggle for freedom. But for three proud, passionate women, the same fierce conflict that rages throughout France burns in their own hearts…and will forever change their lives.From the sun-drenched beauty of the French countryside to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the dark and terrible days of the Occupation to the glory of liberation, this is the magnificent story of the men and women, lovers and enemies, whose passionate dreams and undying patriotism shape the destiny of their land and their lives.
From The Author
I grew up fascinated by World War II because it was the seminal experience of the previous generation’s lives and all their hopes and convictions were influenced by it. My father was a buff. Born in 1924, he was seventeen at the time of Pearl Harbor and joined the navy two years later. Lacking a son, he took me to World War II movies and gave me books about Guadalcanal and the Normandy invasion to read. I saw The Longest Day in 1963 with him for MY birthday (clever guy) and read Up Periscope because it was sitting in my rec room. It proved to be just as interesting as Maureen Daly’s Seventeenth Summer, which I was also devouring at the time. I became a buff too. When the opportunity presented itself for me to combine my two great loves, the war culture of the nineteen forties and fictional romance, I pursued it and wrote this book.
The forties had always had a nostalgic appeal for me. I like the music and the clothes and the corny dialogue of that wartime decade, partly because it was the era of my parents’ youth and partly because the issues at risk were big and important and changed the world. I always felt deeply the rightness of the cause and the terrible injustices the Allies had to overcome to prevent civilization from falling into the ungentle hands of their enemies. Then when I married a man whose mother was one of the many war brides who emigrated to this country as a result of that conflict, my interest in her personal story was piqued. She had lived in the village of Fains les Sources, the French hamlet described in Clash By Night, which was occupied by the Germans for more than four years. She witnessed that takeover by a foreign power first hand and I used her experiences there as the background for my story of three relationships forged by the war. The forbidding German commander who falls for an abused French refugee, his aide who loves a nurse working covertly for the underground, and an American marine who parachutes into the woods of the Meuse to organize a Resistance group and can’t forget the war widow who helps him-all of these people are altered forever in the story. They meet because of larger than life circumstances and form bonds that prove stronger than the global conflagration which tries to tear them apart. Their emotions are timeless and their love crosses national boundaries as the world erupts around them. I enjoyed researching and writing this book and I hope you will enjoy reading it just as much. Doreen Owens Malek
The forties had always had a nostalgic appeal for me. I like the music and the clothes and the corny dialogue of that wartime decade, partly because it was the era of my parents’ youth and partly because the issues at risk were big and important and changed the world. I always felt deeply the rightness of the cause and the terrible injustices the Allies had to overcome to prevent civilization from falling into the ungentle hands of their enemies. Then when I married a man whose mother was one of the many war brides who emigrated to this country as a result of that conflict, my interest in her personal story was piqued. She had lived in the village of Fains les Sources, the French hamlet described in Clash By Night, which was occupied by the Germans for more than four years. She witnessed that takeover by a foreign power first hand and I used her experiences there as the background for my story of three relationships forged by the war. The forbidding German commander who falls for an abused French refugee, his aide who loves a nurse working covertly for the underground, and an American marine who parachutes into the woods of the Meuse to organize a Resistance group and can’t forget the war widow who helps him-all of these people are altered forever in the story. They meet because of larger than life circumstances and form bonds that prove stronger than the global conflagration which tries to tear them apart. Their emotions are timeless and their love crosses national boundaries as the world erupts around them. I enjoyed researching and writing this book and I hope you will enjoy reading it just as much. Doreen Owens Malek
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