All the Lights Above Us: Inspired by the women of D-Day

This is the story of the D-day invasion June 6, 1944. It is a story of four women during this time in history and the different ways in which they were affected by the invasion. How they fought for their survival, and their way of life in a country torn by war. Mildred is an expatriate American working at a radio station as Axis Sally spreading propaganda for the German's. She begins to have a guilty conscious for what she is doing. She knows that it is wrong and that she will be tried for treason by America when she is caught. Theda is a VAD volunteer at the hospital working with the nurses and the doctors to help care for all the wounded soldiers returning to England for medical treatment. She is conflicted between wanting to be her own person and her mother's wishes for her to be a wife and mother. Flora is in France working with the French resistance. She lives with her boyfriend who also works with the French resistance. The resistance is called The French Maquisards. She wishes to do more but as a woman is only given simple jobs. Then she learns the real reason why as she sits by a fellow resistance worker and a childhood friend at the hospital. Emilia is working for the German Nazi's in France as a typist and a secretary to a Nazi officer. She took the job to keep from being sent to the Lebensborn program. She hates her work and only took it for that reason. She hates what the Nazi's are doing and the cruel acts they perform. She wishes to escape but is trapped. Adelaide is an older lady living in France. She has been forced to take in German Soldiers to board in her home. She has issues with her daughter, but when the invasion happens she takes on an impossible task to find and be with her daughter and granddaughter, first with the help of a German soldier and then with the help of an American soldier. These are the women the book is written about. Each of them live different lives and are affected differently by the D-day invasion. Even though they all live different lives, they are all affected by the war and it's horrors. It forces them to look inside to their true feelings. This was a pretty good book, it did go from one person to the next and was somewhat hard to follow because of that. I did enjoy the stories, but it was a lot of different switches with so many different stories to follow. It was almost like reading a book of short stories but they were mixed in together so you read a little of each story then a little of the next story. Thanks to M.B. Henry for writing the story, to Alcove Press for Publishing it and to NetGalley for making it available for me to read and review.