BOOK THREE OF "THE SPARROW TRILOGY" 1940 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR BEGINS Sir Vivian Sparrow is working for Winston Churchill who will soon be British Prime Minister. Within days France will fall. Lady Sparrow becomes desperate to comfort her dying mother on the far side of occupied France. Adele Michaud joins the French Resistance, then falls in love with a German officer. Surrealist poetry brings together two enemies as London awaits the Luftwaffe's bombers and Europe goes up in flames.