Women in War

By Marilyn M Schulz
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Published: Sep. 27, 2011
Words: 131,576 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465932167

Short description

What if Cinderella was really an arsonist of great use to the French Resistance? Or an old woman from a bombed-out neighborhood in Holland finds shelter in a shoe shop and takes in some orphans? This is a collection of short stories about European women and their struggles during the Second World War, inspired by fairy tales and nursery rhymes—which have taken on a twist.

Extended description

Historical Suspense Series

When the Fairy Tale gets Twisted:

What if Cinderella was really an arsonist of great use to the French Resistance? (Read more) Historical Suspense Series

When the Fairy Tale gets Twisted:

What if Cinderella was really an arsonist of great use to the French Resistance?

Or an old woman from a bombed-out neighborhood in Holland finds shelter in a shoe shop and takes in some orphans?

Or an attractive flaming-redhead in Poland is having difficulty escaping the notice of the Nazis who are looting her homeland and must flee to the woods where there are other sorts of wolves waiting there?

What if Jane Muffet, who works in a furniture repair shop in London, finds that Fifth columnists are passing secret messages through footstools sent to embassies as gifts?

This is a collection of short stories about European women and their struggles during the Second World War, inspired by fairy tales and nursery rhymes—which have taken on a twist.

The Stories, inspired by:

Red Riding Hood
In a small city in Nazi-occupied Poland, December, 1939

Hansel and Gretel
London and other undisclosed locations, February, 1940

There was an Old Woman who lives in a shoe. . .
Small city in the path of the German Blitzkrieg, The Netherlands, May, 1940

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Village in eastern French province of Alsace, annexed by the Germans to become part of the Fatherland, Autumn, 1940

Cinderella
Countryside in France, 1930s through the Nazi-occupation

Rapunzel
At the manor of an ancient line, requisitioned by the War Office and converted to a military hospital, somewhere in the southern countryside of Great Britain, early Autumn, 1940

Miss Muffet
Northwest London, Spring, 1941

Old Mother Hubbard
Trondheim, Nazi-occupied Norway, Autumn, 1942

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Large Serbian village near Belgrade, Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, 1940—and the years before. . .

Mary had a little lamb. . .
Old MacDonald had a farm. . .
On a farm in Scotland near a POW camp, Spring, 1940 and the war years after. . .

Beauty and the Beast
Flemish-speaking village in Belgium, 1940 and the years to liberation. . .
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short stories, historical, world war 2, mary stewart, european women, victoria holt

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