Stage and screen legend VIRGINIA BENOIT performs for standing room only crowds in her adopted home of France. When the Nazis roll into Paris, she flees to Casablanca, taking the heart of an enemy Colonel with her. While in there, Virginia devises a plan to use her position, talent, and influence with the high ranking Axis officer to aid the Allied cause. Virginia joins the Virtues team, assigned the code-name HOPE. Her keen mind trains in the craft of espionage. After staging a rift with the US, she returns to Paris, hiding undercover in plain sight, and spies on the enemy. All is well until the Third Reich imprisons the Virtues wireless operator, code named Temperance. As the Virtues engineer a plan to rescue Temperance from the Gestapoâ??s clutches, Virginia takes to the stage to play her part in the daring mission. Will the murderous racism of the Nazi High Command prevent her from fulfilling her duties? Homeland's Hope is part two of eight serialized novellas entitled the Virtues and Valor series. Seven valorous women â?? different nationalities, ethnicities, and social backgrounds â?? come together as a team called the Virtues. In 1941 Great Britain a special war department assembles an experimental and exclusively female cohort of combat operatives. Four willing spies, a wireless radio operator, an ingenious code breaker, and a fearless pilot are each hand-picked, recruited, and trained to initiate a daring mission in Occupied France. As plans are laid to engineer the largest prison break of Allied POWs in history, the Nazis capture the Virtuesâ?? radio operator. It will take the cohesive teamwork of the rest of the women to save her life before Berlin breaks her and brings the force of the Third Reich to bear. Some find love, some find vengeance, and some discover the kind of strength that lives in the human heart when all they can do is rely on each other and their shared belief. Courage, faith, and valor intersect but, in the end, one pays the ultimate price. Continuing the Virtues and Valor series by Hallee Bridgeman. Eight serialized novellas, each inspired by real people and actual events, reveal the incredible story of amazing heroines facing the ultimate test… (más)
Born in the US, rejected there because she is neither Black nor White, Virginia Benoit, code named Hope, serves with a team of six other women gathering special intelligence against Germany in WWII. As Hallee Bridgman's second novella, Homeland's Hope, starts, Temperance, the group's wire operator, has been captured by the Nazis. Hope, with her beautiful, sultry voice that fills opera houses, volunteers to continue to get close to the German General Schmid, who is quite taken with her, despite her non-Aryan heritage. How long will the Third Reich put up with one of their officers consorting with one they deem less than human? Hope pushes the limits until... just as it got REALLY good, the novella ended in another cliff-hanger.
Bridgeman knows how to write believable wartime suspense, with an edge of romance and faith interspersed. What I love most, though, is the history lesson at the end. It explains more about Jesse Owens, who was mentioned and also details Josephine Baker, upon whom the heroine is based. What a treat. A thrilling novel for fun and the real-life facts behind them! Caution: should you decide to read this series, be ready to run, not walk, out and buy the rest of the series!!
I received this book from bookfun.org in exchange for an honest review. ( )
Stage and screen legend VIRGINIA BENOIT performs for standing room only crowds in her adopted home of France. When the Nazis roll into Paris, she flees to Casablanca, taking the heart of an enemy Colonel with her. While in there, Virginia devises a plan to use her position, talent, and influence with the high ranking Axis officer to aid the Allied cause. Virginia joins the Virtues team, assigned the code-name HOPE. Her keen mind trains in the craft of espionage. After staging a rift with the US, she returns to Paris, hiding undercover in plain sight, and spies on the enemy. All is well until the Third Reich imprisons the Virtues wireless operator, code named Temperance. As the Virtues engineer a plan to rescue Temperance from the Gestapoâ??s clutches, Virginia takes to the stage to play her part in the daring mission. Will the murderous racism of the Nazi High Command prevent her from fulfilling her duties? Homeland's Hope is part two of eight serialized novellas entitled the Virtues and Valor series. Seven valorous women â?? different nationalities, ethnicities, and social backgrounds â?? come together as a team called the Virtues. In 1941 Great Britain a special war department assembles an experimental and exclusively female cohort of combat operatives. Four willing spies, a wireless radio operator, an ingenious code breaker, and a fearless pilot are each hand-picked, recruited, and trained to initiate a daring mission in Occupied France. As plans are laid to engineer the largest prison break of Allied POWs in history, the Nazis capture the Virtuesâ?? radio operator. It will take the cohesive teamwork of the rest of the women to save her life before Berlin breaks her and brings the force of the Third Reich to bear. Some find love, some find vengeance, and some discover the kind of strength that lives in the human heart when all they can do is rely on each other and their shared belief. Courage, faith, and valor intersect but, in the end, one pays the ultimate price. Continuing the Virtues and Valor series by Hallee Bridgeman. Eight serialized novellas, each inspired by real people and actual events, reveal the incredible story of amazing heroines facing the ultimate test
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Born in the US, rejected there because she is neither Black nor White, Virginia Benoit, code named Hope, serves with a team of six other women gathering special intelligence against Germany in WWII. As Hallee Bridgman's second novella, Homeland's Hope, starts, Temperance, the group's wire operator, has been captured by the Nazis. Hope, with her beautiful, sultry voice that fills opera houses, volunteers to continue to get close to the German General Schmid, who is quite taken with her, despite her non-Aryan heritage. How long will the Third Reich put up with one of their officers consorting with one they deem less than human? Hope pushes the limits until... just as it got REALLY good, the novella ended in another cliff-hanger.
Bridgeman knows how to write believable wartime suspense, with an edge of romance and faith interspersed. What I love most, though, is the history lesson at the end. It explains more about Jesse Owens, who was mentioned and also details Josephine Baker, upon whom the heroine is based. What a treat. A thrilling novel for fun and the real-life facts behind them! Caution: should you decide to read this series, be ready to run, not walk, out and buy the rest of the series!!
I received this book from bookfun.org in exchange for an honest review. (