A Quiet Hero

A Novel of Resistance in WWII France

By: Dwight Harshbarger

Narrated by: Victoria Rodriguez

After seizing Europe, the Nazis begin to execute the final solution by conducting a census of Jews in each of the occupied countries that is driven by IBM technology. After the census in Holland, the Nazis murdered 75 percent of the Dutch Jews. After the census in France, 25 percent of the country's Jews are murdered. What made France different? At Vichy Frances National Statistical Service headquarters in Lyon, General René Carmille and his aide Miriam Dupré know spies are everywhere. They race against time to sabotage the census-based lists of Jews and mobilize the resistance to combat the Nazi death machine. In this novel, Miriam tells the true story of General René Carmille’s leadership in saving the lives of thousands of Jews the story of a quiet hero.

©2019 Dwight Harshbarger (P)2020 Dwight Harshbarger

A strangely narrated worthwhile story

I almost abandoned the story several times. The narration was very odd to me. The story picked up around chapter 40. I learned several important things about that period in history. I must admit that I was relieved when it was finished!