The Sword and the Prison

Name: The Sword and the Prison
Rating: 4.1 (562 reviews)

by Christopher Nicole Book 3 in the Sword Series series.

First published 1997

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When honour is worth more than life itself. Germany, 1940 The fall of France has struck a demoralising blow for the British forces fleeing the Continent. The badly wounded Major Hector Brand, leading his men to St Valery for extraction, is horrified when German planes destroy the hospital ship carrying away the injured. Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, he soon discovers that the promised extraction will not be forthcoming. No one is coming to rescue them – there is no choice but for Hector, his troops, and every other British man left on the shore at St Valery to surrender.

To his surprise, Hector is transported to the home of Joachim Baron von Patten to convalesce, where he is nursed back to health by the daughters of the house in an unexpected attempt to return a debt – Hector’s uncle once saved the life of von Patten’s father. Hector’s unusual convalescence in a German aristocratic household turns the obligations of military escape into a moral conflict involving gratitude, seduction and the family loyalties of people officially defined as enemies.