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As I am a history buff of WWII and particularly of the Occupation of France, I bought Clash by Night by Doreen Owens since it is set in that period. I read the reviews but I like to make up my own mind. Well, this book would have hit the wall after a couple of pages – but didn’t want to damage my Kindle - because of its grievous historical mistakes. Maybe the story line is good, I don’t know, I have stopped reading.

It is really wrong that authors do not do a conscientious research of their subjects because readers take it for granted they did and, like those reviewers giving five stars, believe that they have learned a bit of history. How easy it is nowadays to Google facts and get it right!

Finally, this is where I stop reading: Laura gets an Ausweiss to go to London. What? There’s a war on. Then “....before she was permitted to board the ferry.” Now I wonder why Hitler, who was trying so hard to invade England, did not catch the ferry.

Here is a short list of the historical mistakes in the first couple of chapters:
- Alain runs into the house shouting Paris has been taken. That's June 14, 1940. So the family decides to leave their home. Fains and Bar-le-Duc, main town close by, are in the Meuse county (called department in France). The Meuse, Alsace and Lorraine departments were evacuated early in 1939. Few people remained. May 10, 1940, the French order total evacuation of the Meuse because of its proximity to the Maginot line and expected fighting, though a few hard-nosed people (with sympathies to the Nazis) do remain. So now in the novel people are leaving after June 14. The Germans take over Meuse and all the eastern area June 15. Meuse become part of the “Zone Interdite”, Forbidden area. Anybody who has left is not allowed to return. The whole area was to be germanized, and colonized by Germans. Anybody left there was required to speak/learn German. French language is banned.
- Germans army marching into France wearing “pith helmets”. I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. They wore steel helmets. Armies didn’t even wear pith helmets in the desert war.
- French schools did not “ring bell signalling the end of the first session.” Bells were for alarm only. End of morning and afternoon breaks was a whistle.
- School children never started the day singing La Marseillaise – and still do not to this day - unlike American students singing the national anthem.
- Harris and his “boiled coffee”. French did not boil coffee ever (What an anathema to French coffee lover) The method is “café filtre”, i.e. boiling water poured over coffee ground sitting in a filter.
- The lit lantern outside the barn. Duh, what about the black-out?
- Fully qualified nurses wore a totally white cap with a small attached veil at the back, so did the students. No blue line on the cap as the author writes. They wore a long white dress with a white apron. On the chest was an embroided red cross because nurses had formed a National Society of the Red Cross to assist the wounded.


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Clash By Night Doreen Owens Malek 9780373970599 Books Reviews

Overll a good story... more romance than history. Not the best of the genre but enjoyable reading; keeps one's interest as the characters move through WWII German invasion of France, the Resistance activities and then the liberation by the Allies. Found the love scenes rather lengthy and the story line a bit contrived in places in order to get the desired end result. Nevertheless, would recommend it for people who enjoy good stories about this era of history.
Well paced, a romantic novel set in the tumultuous backdrop of France's invasion. The premise evolves effortlessly as characters find love with friends and foes. I felt transported to those dangerous times. Great read. Conrad Samayoa.
I read this in paperback several decades ago and found it to be a good beach read. However, the German officer in this novel is not a ruthless jackbooted heel as most were. As with the hero in Jack Higgins' novel The Eagle Has Landed, this aristocratic protagonist is sympathetic towards Jews (so are the Nazis in some of Ken Follett's books) and has an affair with a Frenchwoman who is part Jewish. Kind of misleading, but many of these types of novels tend to bend in that direction, the most recent being the far-fetched Finding Rebecca. Nonetheless, this is a quick read and an engrossing one.
This is a superb WWII historical romance. I loved it. The characters we rich and complex. I could really imagine what it would have been like to live in occupied France during that period. It gives you such appreciation for the men and women of the Resistance who worked so tirelessly to fight the Nazis from within. I cannot imagine living in such peril. This book gave a different take on a German officer as well. I loved this book and can highly recommend.
I absolutely LOVED this book. Taking place in occupied France during the Nazi occupation, it is the story of 6 people. Two Americans, two French, and two Germans. When the German army comes to occupy the small town of Fains in the north of France, many run, but some brave souls form a resistance. Among them is an American girl who is married to a Fremchman who was killed early in the war. She has stayed with her brother and father in-law as she has no desire to return to America and the parents who were against her marriage.
Enter the German army under Captain Anton Becker, a disgraced soldier and his young aide Kurt. They bothe unknown to the other become involved with two French girls.
I loved this passage by Becker who was one of the truly humane German invaders to Lysette, his love.
"Should I wish my country to win and see the whoile world plunged into chaos?" he demanded. "My loyalty is to Germany, not to that lunatic house painter and his minions. They are ruining my country with a regime that will go down in history as the scandal of the civilized world. Do you know what the latest SS enterprise is? Lebensborn, Himmler's pet project, I am told. Lebensborn is a plan for the future of the Aryan race. They are kidnapping children of the "right" physical type, blonde hair and blue eyes from families in Poland and other occupied countries, sending them to group homes to be raised as proper little Nazis. It has obviously not occured to Mein Fuhrer to look into the mirrorand discover that he is not then right racial type." Becker, a truly honorable German was my favorite character, showing that not all Germans were bad. The best part was that they all had a happy ending. Thank you Doreen for making this book free so I was able to read it. Highly Recommended.
As I am a history buff of WWII and particularly of the Occupation of France, I bought Clash by Night by Doreen Owens since it is set in that period. I read the reviews but I like to make up my own mind. Well, this book would have hit the wall after a couple of pages – but didn’t want to damage my - because of its grievous historical mistakes. Maybe the story line is good, I don’t know, I have stopped reading.

It is really wrong that authors do not do a conscientious research of their subjects because readers take it for granted they did and, like those reviewers giving five stars, believe that they have learned a bit of history. How easy it is nowadays to Google facts and get it right!

Finally, this is where I stop reading Laura gets an Ausweiss to go to London. What? There’s a war on. Then “....before she was permitted to board the ferry.” Now I wonder why Hitler, who was trying so hard to invade England, did not catch the ferry.

Here is a short list of the historical mistakes in the first couple of chapters
- Alain runs into the house shouting Paris has been taken. That's June 14, 1940. So the family decides to leave their home. Fains and Bar-le-Duc, main town close by, are in the Meuse county (called department in France). The Meuse, Alsace and Lorraine departments were evacuated early in 1939. Few people remained. May 10, 1940, the French order total evacuation of the Meuse because of its proximity to the Maginot line and expected fighting, though a few hard-nosed people (with sympathies to the Nazis) do remain. So now in the novel people are leaving after June 14. The Germans take over Meuse and all the eastern area June 15. Meuse become part of the “Zone Interdite”, Forbidden area. Anybody who has left is not allowed to return. The whole area was to be germanized, and colonized by Germans. Anybody left there was required to speak/learn German. French language is banned.
- Germans army marching into France wearing “pith helmets”. I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. They wore steel helmets. Armies didn’t even wear pith helmets in the desert war.
- French schools did not “ring bell signalling the end of the first session.” Bells were for alarm only. End of morning and afternoon breaks was a whistle.
- School children never started the day singing La Marseillaise – and still do not to this day - unlike American students singing the national anthem.
- Harris and his “boiled coffee”. French did not boil coffee ever (What an anathema to French coffee lover) The method is “café filtre”, i.e. boiling water poured over coffee ground sitting in a filter.
- The lit lantern outside the barn. Duh, what about the black-out?
- Fully qualified nurses wore a totally white cap with a small attached veil at the back, so did the students. No blue line on the cap as the author writes. They wore a long white dress with a white apron. On the chest was an embroided red cross because nurses had formed a National Society of the Red Cross to assist the wounded.