Edelweiss

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set in Europe during World War II Edelweiss is a story of heroism and love.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marietta von Burgheim is a woman of beauty and morality and an heiress to a fortune. Turning her back on the responsibilities of her noble birth and her father's wrath Marietta joins a student resistance group determined to overthrow the Nazis.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bill Roth Reuters' correspondent based in pre-war Berlin is the maverick heir to his uncle an American industrialist. When Bill and Marietta meet they fall headlong in love but their passion is overshadowed by the horror of the Nazi occupation and the outbreak of war.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hugo von Hesse Marietta's step-brother makes a meteoric rise through the ranks to become a powerful SS officer. Reaching the pinnacle of power in the New Order Hugo uses his position to destroy the von Burgheims and take over the family fortune.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the Nazis tighten their grip on Europe the struggle between Marietta Bill and Hugo becomes a microcosm of the war itself - violent bloody and treacherous. </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><span>���</span>Madge Swindells</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> was born and educated in England. As a teenager she emigrated to South Africa where she studied archaeology at Cape Town University. Later in England she was a Fleet Street journalist and the manager of her own publishing company. Her earlier novels </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Summer Harvest Song of the Wind Shadows on the Snow The Corsican Woman The Sentinel</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Harvesting the Past</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> were international bestsellers and have been translated into eight languages. She lives in South Africa.</span></p>