I loved this book…enough said…it was sent to me by Netgalley on Kindle for review…I do not enjoy books divided like this one into different characters usually…this time it worked…I could see what was happening…having read a plethora of books and seen several movies about D Day, this book brought it alive in other ways…my favorite part was the French woman walking to find her daughter…this is a not to be missed historical novel…

All the Lights Above Us by M. B. Henry is a wonderful WWII-era historical fiction novel that takes us into the lives of several women and their own stories surrounding D-Day.

This is such a great book. It takes the lives/narratives of several different women that encompass a vast array of locations, nationalities, and circumstances and what they experienced around the time of D-Day( 6/4/44). It was quite fascinating to compare/contrast how this pivotal day of infamy affected them.

I also enjoyed the notes presented at the end to add the historical aspects as well as fact vs fiction.

4/5 stars

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This book follows five women directly before, during, and slightly after D-Day, 6 JUN 1944. Theda works in a UK hospital. Flora is a French resistance fighter. Emilia is a German working at a French prison in the same town as Flora. Mildred is an American working for a radio station in Berlin. Adelaide lives near the D-Day beaches. Although this is a fictional book, it’s obvious that attention was paid to the historical documents of that time. I found myself consulting online sources to read up on some of the things the author mentioned, such as the incident in Sainte Mere Eglise. The author introduces the characters one at a time and for the most part, they don’t overlap (though Flora and Emilia recognize each other). While each woman’s story is important in the overall scope of D-Day - such as how those “on the ground” not in the war were affected - it took me a little while to keep track of who was who and what they were doing. The Author’s Note in the end provides more information about this time period - including information on who was real (Mildred) and who was fictional but based upon real people or real situations (Adelaide provides information on the Utah Beach troop movement). All in all, I’d say this was an interesting historical fiction book about D-Day that captures the lay person’s (opposed to front line) account of that historic day.

June 6, 1944, what history will remember as D Day, will affect five different women of different faiths and nationalities in profound ways. From an American ex-pat who spews Nazi propaganda over the airwaves, to a French Resistance fighter to a member of the Gestapo, working to destroy the Nazi machine from the inside, thus is a unique and unforgettable story