The author weaves a variety of styles and voices throughout. But I always felt like I could picture the scenes in complete detail. The writing isn’t lush or overly descriptive. I dare you not to have tears in your eyes at the end. My husband finally stopped asking why I kept gasping. It grabs you and takes you on a nonstop ride. It’s as much a thriller as historical fiction. In my mind, these are well made comparisons.
This book has been compared to two five star WWII books - Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Nightingale. There’s a quick little interesting scene with Patton and the Third Division. Yes, the Allies have wrestled back Paris, but the rest of the country is still up in the air, with Germans and resistance fighters shooting first and asking questions later. Holloway paints a picture of France almost like the Wild West. He meets Charlie, an American nurse who agrees to help him for reasons not made immediately clear. Now, as the war is nearing its end, Rhys has come to France to search for his son. A disagreement with that son at the beginning of WWII led to their estrangement. He’s a widower and only has one son still alive. Rhys is a Welsh sheep farmer and a WWI veteran.
It’s fabulous! It grabbed my interest from the beginning. He meets Charlie, an American nurse who agrees to help him for reasons not made immed I discovered this book when a GR friend posted her five star review and I quickly requested it.
I discovered this book when a GR friend posted her five star review and I quickly requested it. Too late to mend the frayed bond between them. The country is in tatters, no one is trustworthy, and Rhys must unravel the mystery of his son's wartime actions in the desperate hope of finding him before it's too late. In a race of his own, a relentless enemy stalks him across the country and will stop at nothing to find the young man first. But Rhys is not the only one searching for his son. In a race against time and the war, Rhys follows his son's trail from Paris to the perilous streets of Vichy to the starving mobs in Lyon to the treacherous Alps.
And his personal war has only begun as he is haunted by memories of previous battles and hampered at every turn by danger and betrayal.
#ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH DRIVER#
Joined by Charlotte Dubois, an American ambulance driver with secrets of her own, Rhys discovers that even as liberation sweeps across France, the war is far from over. As he follows the footsteps of his missing son across an unfamiliar, war-torn country, he struggles to come to terms with the incident that drove a wedge between the two of them. Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran and Welsh sheep farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation with a worn letter in his pocket that may have arrived years too late. Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran and Welsh sheep farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation For readers of The Nightingale and Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a gripping historical thriller set against a fully-realized WWII backdrop about the love a father has for his son and the lengths he is willing to go to find him, from a talented new voice in suspense. For readers of The Nightingale and Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a gripping historical thriller set against a fully-realized WWII backdrop about the love a father has for his son and the lengths he is willing to go to find him, from a talented new voice in suspense.
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