Citadel

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Twisted facts entirely for her own purposes and played God with history to such an extent that nothing can be said to be even vaguely based on what was really occurring during this epoch. Yet despite this, Mosse still sees fit to skip forward some 2 or 3 years in the middle of the novel and ask us to believe that very little of significance occurred in this time, despite the plethora of events that occurred in the times before and after. The novel takes place largely between 1942 and 1944, between the occupation and liberation of southern France.

Mosse’s descriptions of the town emphasize its age and its beauty and make it come to life in readers’ minds. Citadel is a huge tome of a book, almost 700 pages and although it dragged a tiny bit in the middle, on the whole, it is a fast-paced, if complex story that will grip the reader.Een prachtig verhaal wat geschiedenis, bon homme, een codex, een oorlog, en liefdesverhaal met elkaar verweven. And new heroes and heroines, Raoul, Sandrine, Lucie, Marianne, too many to name all related somehow to the story of the characters of the previous book like a cycle. Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Observer Kate Mosse OBE, her reputation as a champion of popular fiction cemented.

The police were to protect, although many of them were involved with the Nazi's, who to trust was a significant problem. By the end, I just couldn't care less about the characters, but was simply rather glad they had stopped speaking. Like their ancestors who fought to protect their land from Northern invaders seven hundred years before, these women—code-named Citadel—fight to liberate their home from the Germans. In fact, I have not read the previous installments ( Labyrinth and Sepulchre) and didn’t even realize it was part of a trilogy until it arrived in the mail, and I was able to follow it just fine.After the huge success of the first two instalments of her Languedoc trilogy, Kate Mosse's Citadel was always going to sell well. I enjoyed reading about Carcassonne and greatly enjoyed the history involved in the creation of the novel. When a bomb goes off at a crowded, peaceful demonstration, Raoul realises he has been set up by Authié to look like the perpetrator.

These members of the resistance must also protect an ancient secret that, if discovered by the enemy, could change the course of history. And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. Mosse emphasizes dialogue over description, so despite Citadel’s generous endowments, I found myself speeding through it. Beneath his official guise, Authié is a kind of latter-day inquisitor, obsessed with restoring the purity of the Catholic faith; he knows that Antoine corresponded with Otto Rahn, and suspects that before Rahn's death the German passed to Antoine a map revealing the whereabouts of an ancient codex containing a secret so powerful it could change the course of the war.Good story, based more in the present than her previous books but still with links to the history of the Languedoc. Mosse has marshalled a large cast of characters, although (as in Labyrinth and its successor, Sepulchre) the story centres around a determined young heroine, in this case 18-year-old Sandrine Vidal, an orphan living with her older sister in Carcassonne. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. This idea of a connection between the story of a secret Cathar treasure and the grail was given substance in the 20th century by the work of Otto Rahn, a German historian and SS officer who believed that the Cathars held the key to the grail mystery, and that the evidence was somewhere beneath the ruins of Montségur. It was easy for me to get a grip on him and what he was all about; wicked to the bone and dangerously religious.