Night Sky Author:Clare Francis Set in the years between 1935 and 1945, a decade when people everywhere found their lives turned upside down, the novel combines the historical drama of a Europe in chaos with the personal triumphs and tragedies of people trapped by the passions of war, love and revenge. — Its three main characters could not be more diverse. Julie Lescaux is a yo... more »ung Englishwoman who, on the eve of World War II, moves to a tiny fishing village in Normandy, where she hopes no questions will be asked about the father of the child she is about to bear. Paul Vasson is a petty French criminal who, by becoming a Nazi collaborator specializing in the infiltration of Underground escape lines for Allied servicemen, thrives in war as he never prospered in peace. David Freymann is a German-Jewish scientist who takes with him to a concentration camp the secret of shortwave radar, a secret which, if it falls into Nazi hands, can change the course of the war in Germany's favor.« less