When Colonel Matthew Hammond was posted to the European theater during
World War II, he sustained a serious injury on the front lines that cost
him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but continuing
to serve his country by training new resistance fighters in SC2, a
specialist sabotage outfit. One of the recruits under his tutelage is
the spellbinding Madeleine Dirac, an exotic French-Canadian nurse.
Despite protocols discouraging romance, they fall deeply in love.
Matthew is torn about putting Madeleine's life in danger: he has mixed
duty and pleasure before, with tragic results--his former lover,
Celestine, was killed in an attempt to assassinate a Nazi doctor. But
the Allies are mustering all their resources for crucial beach landings
in Normandy, and Matthew knows his unit will be needed to parachute its
agents in behind Nazi lines. Vivid and unforgettable, Madeleine's War
is a gripping tale of love in wartime--and of men and women caught in
the sweep of history.