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Mary Verdick
Thought-provoking and Unforgettable!
As war ravages Europe in 1940 and bombs fall nightly on London, Frankie Bard, girl reporter and assistant to Edward R. Murrow, whose nightly broadcasts from London have the whole U. S. listening, feels it's imperative we join the fray. Although President Roosevelt has promised not to send our boys to fight in foreign wars, Frankie feels we have to enter the war to save civilization--it's inevitable! Sent to the continent by Murrow she sends bac ...more
The storyline and setting were good and the characters were interesting- except when they weren't. And the story would get lost in unnecessary narritive that was a struggle to get through. At times the book was brillant which made the bad parts even worse because you knew the author was capable of better. Could have been a really good book but was a bit of a waste instead.
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This book really crept up on me. It's gentle, it's slow-paced, it has beautiful writing. And then the flip side is that it's about WWII in the UK, France, the US. Seeing the war through the eyes of a war correspondent was a good move - especially a female journo breaking new ground. I enjoyed tapping into her thought processes - how to write her radio piece, how to puzzle together a story.
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