Kristin Hannah · 2015 · survival

In Nazi-occupied France, two estranged sisters resist in their own ways: Vianne shelters the vulnerable in her Loire village while her fearless younger sister Isabelle, code-named the Nightingale, joins the Resistance and guides downed Allied airmen on foot over the Pyrenees to freedom, until betrayal lands her in a German camp.

1. 1
   Paris

   As France falls, the reckless young Isabelle Rossignol distributes resistance leaflets in occupied Paris and is drawn into the underground.

2. 2
   Carriveau

   In her sister Vianne's Loire village, billeted with a German officer, Isabelle begins smuggling stranded airmen out of France.

3. 3
   San Sebastian

   As the Nightingale she leads them south and over the Pyrenees on foot, delivering airman after airman to safety in Spain.

4. 4
   Ravensbruck

   Betrayed at last, Isabelle is captured and deported to a German concentration camp, having saved more than a hundred lives.