A hard book to read but a very impactful one. Many of the stark horrors of WWII are shown (all the content warnings you can imagine do apply). The stories of heroic resistance, both quiet and explicit, and the characters and their relationships, are well written and emotionally rending; have some emotional strength saved up for this story.

Fictional but based on real heroines. I’ve been exposed to a lot of male American centric viewpoints of WWII; seeing things from the viewpoint of French women was a welcome change and really informative.