Snow on the Tulips

4.5 stars.
This was almost impossible to put down...WW2 suspense. Widowed Corrie just wants to hide until the danger is over, but Gerrit has just miraculously survived a German impromptu firing-squad, and has urgent need of shelter and medical care. And somehow, no matter how much she wants to, she can't turn him out, hungry and wounded, into the certain death of the open. Slowly Gerrit's example shows her that sometimes the only option is to stand and face down the evil that threatens.
To be frank, it was Piet's decision that took the half star away from this book. While I know it was realistic and that many men of faith took the same action, I hated that he was either so blind or so foolish as to do it. He went, knowing the Allies were close, knowing exactly what sort of government he was going to help and enable. His first duty was to his pregnant wife; his second to thwart the unGodly plans of Nazi Germany; he failed both and paid with his life.