Applewood (Sage of the Vialhe #2) by Claude Michelet

Succeeding to the family farm between the wars, Pierre-Edouard and Mathilde Vialhe struggle with a series of natural calamities in the Limousin, north of the Dordogne, and political chaos in Paris. The old ways are dying, and the future looks uncertain.

Then World War II breaks out, and it seems there may be no future at all for the Vialhes - their son Jacques a prisoner in Germany, Paul with the Free French in England, indomitable Berthe condemned to the horror of Auschwitz. But, stubborn as the land, the family weather this storm too - to emerge in a world irrevocably altered.

For if the war brings Paul the dream he was seeking, it leads him to tragedy in Algeria; if Jacques forges new love and a new career, he cannot forget what he has lost. And who, of the 60s generation, will care for the unrewarding land?

Genres: Historical Fiction - France
Condition: Good
Published: First published in 1994 by Orion Books. Third impression 1995. 
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9781407238234
Weight: 245g