The year 1944 is looming quite closely, and that’s when Franka finds a new reason to live when she stumbles on an injured airman from the Luftwaffe. We are introduced to Franka Gerber, a German woman who hates the Nazi regime after it claimed the lives of her brother and father.
To clear things up, this is indeed a work of fiction that takes place during World War II and it aims to tell a particular story which, for the most part, stands outside the grand strokes of the conflict. It’s a sort of quality few writers possess, and in my opinion Eoin Dempsey is certainly one of them as he clearly shows it in his novel White Rose, Black Forest. I believe that when an author writes a historical fiction novel that takes place during the Second World War they owe it to their audience to faithfully capture whatever subject they choose to focus on. It’s a period in history which fascinates an incredible number of people, and not without reason: it was, after all, a time when the rules of life got completely re-written and extreme circumstances were the only ones people experienced. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous.The Second World War might seem like it happened ages ago to most of us, but the sheer magnitude and complexity of the event will leave it fresh in humanity’s collective memory for a very long time to come. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman?s true identity.
Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family?s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents.
Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family?s summer cottage was filled with laughter. In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.December 1943.
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