A Bridge to Elne

It was the best novel I’ve read in 10 years! Concisely written and historically accurate, “A Bridge to Elne” is a gripping depiction of humanity’s ability to survive its darkest hours. Through a French Résistance fighter, Marcel Pointer, and a German officer who despises his regime, Johann Weller, the reader visits a nebulous underworld where the lines between hunter and prey vanish, as they share a common will to endure. War brutalizes the soul perhaps as much as the body, leaving only the strong to pick up the pieces and march on. This book is as much about the strength of the human soul as it is about good eclipsing evil. I hopefully look forward to seeing it one day on the big screen. Victoria Aldrich, Daytona Beach News JournalLike Historical fiction? War novel? Blood & guts? Well, this FIRST NOVEL by L.E. Indianer is none of those things and yet all of them. It’s an historical novel in that it’s set in France during WWII, but it has none of the mind-numbing detail of a 600-page semi-documentary. It’s a war novel in that it’s set during WWII. Blood and guts? Yes & No. It’s not gruesome and explicit but it does contain elements of these because of the nature of subject matter. Well, what IS IT about? It’s an HISTORICAL novel, set during WWII that follows a family through the hardships of survival in an occupied country. The father is a member of the French Resistance and, after finding a “safe” place for his wife and family, continues to fight the Germans with the goal of freeing France. The reader follows the Pontiers through the war. It’s a wonderfully humane treatment of what things may have been like from all points-of-view, both French & German. Read it. You’re in for a treat. Leanne Polsue, Lucent Technologies