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Acquiring historical occasions, terrifying occasions of hazard, tragedy, the price tag on war, and the invincible spirit of a female of honor, The Prize is a monumental story from one of our most gifted storytellers - Danielle Steel's finest, most emotionally resonant novel yet. Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen yrs . old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She actually is stunned and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send these to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous destiny. The neighborhood German military services commandant makes Gaëlle's family real estate outside Lyon into his head office. Her dad and sibling are wiped out by the Germans; her mom fades away into madness and sick health. Reliable friends and employees become traitors. And unintentionally, Gaëlle begins a perilous quest with the French Resistance, hoping to save lives to replace the beloved friend she could do nothing to help. Taking terrifying hazards, Gaëlle becomes a valuable person in the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to security underneath the sight of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. Then she is suddenly contacted by the German commandant with an amazing and dangerous plan to save part of France's creative heritage as the Germans withdraw. As soon as again, her life is at risk. Conducted in top secret, flawlessly carried out, her missions for the Resistance change her life and recognise her for a long time. She actually is falsely accused of collaboration at the end of the war, and flees Lyon in disgrace, orphaned and alone. She would go to Paris to place the war behind her and start a new life, with the ghosts of the past always readily available. Gaëlle's life will need her from Paris to New York, from a profession as a Dior model to matrimony and motherhood, unbearable loss, and older, sustained love. She comes back to Paris to run a little museum, honoring subjects of the Holocaust. She's never sought popularity on her behalf courage during the war years she can't ever forget. Her label as a collaborator remains, until her granddaughter, a respectable political journalist, is set that earlier wrongs finally be made right, and her grandmother's fearless acts be acknowledged. Now a grateful nation will finally acknowledge this remarkable girl. At last, she is absolved and honored as the war hero she was.
