No Room for Heroes: A novel of the French Resistance 1942-44

French ResistanceNo Room for Heroes, is a historical novel with the French Resistance and World War II as background. It follows the lives of twenty-eight-year-old identical female twins from the Vercors Plateau, as they outwit first the Italians who occupied the region, then the Germans. Complications arise as one becomes romantically involved with a radio and explosives expert flown in from England, and the other with the local catholic priest who doubles as a resistance fighter. After serious acts of sabotage, destruction of railways and weapons depots, there follows dramatic captures and escapes together with harsh retaliation by the Gestapo. The climax of the book describes the largest direct confrontation during the war between resistance groups and the German army, the dramatic Battle of the Vercors.