Historical fiction dealing with WWII is completely my jam, but I love The Race for Paris even more because the protagonists are some bad-a$$ women war correspondents. In June 1944 Jane (a reporter from Nashville) and Liv (a photographer from NYC) meet at a field hospital in France and decide to go AWOL in order to stay at the front and be the first news people in Paris when it is won from the Germans.
They meet up with Fletcher, a British military photographer, who against his better judgment, agrees to escort them, and the three journey through the incredibly dangerous and sad reality of war-torn northern France. What unfolds is a wonderful story of the kind of friendships that can only be forged in completely hellacious surroundings.
Meg Waite Clayton has been working on this novel for more than a decade, researching the lives of legendary correspondents like Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn, Lee Williams, and Clare Boothe Luce, who defied military protocol and the men who said they couldn't go to report from the front lines. It is fast paced and informative, but it's also a mix of heartbreaking and hopeful.
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– Annie