About No Room for Heroes
No Room for Heroes, a historical novel 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, as they try to outwit first the Italians who occupied the Grenoble region of Eastern France, then the Germans. Both 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. He is later executed by the Gestapo. 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. Although seemingly defeated, after going underground, within three weeks they emerged and doing what they did best, created havoc for the Germans until liberated by Allied forces.
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Michael Barrington, is an international author, educated in England, Belgium and France and specializes in historical fiction and has written ten books and more than fifty short stories. Let the Peacock Sing, The Ethiopian Affair, Becoming Anya, The Baron of Bengal Street, No Room for Heroes. He also speaks six languages. The Bishop Wears No Drawers is a memoir of ten years spent as a missionary in Africa where he was stoo up to be shot. Passage to Murder is a mystery novel set in San Francisco. His latest book Magic at Stonehenge is a collection of 42 short stories, and will be published in March 2024. He lives near San Francisco with his French wife, a painter who designs his book covers. He also blogs on his website: www.mbwriter.net.