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Reviewed by Bernadette Longu for Readers' Favorite
V for Victory by John McKay is a most interesting story set during the occupation of Paris by the Germans from June 1940 to July 1944. Events are seen through the eyes of a young Parisian boy, Charles Mercier, who is 13 years old and growing up in the heart of Paris with his family and uncle, Michel Mercier, his father’s brother. His father is a prisoner of war, as he was captured by the Germans when he fought with the Free French Army at the beginning of the war. Charles takes the reader on a journey from admiring the German Army as they march through the Champs-Élysées as he grows up. On this journey, we meet Claudette, a Jewish girl who lives in the flats opposite where Charles lives. As the years pass, he gets involved with the French resistance.
In V for Victory by John McKay, the journey Charles takes and the people he meets shape him into the man he becomes at the age of 17. Four years of the German occupation and the atrocities that they committed show what little regard they had for the French population. It is a most interesting story and one that the reader will find themselves reading late into the night. This story brings to light how it affected the children growing up during that period and formed them into some of the most interesting people by the end of the war. But it also brought out the evil in people when they feel that they have been wronged. This is a book well worth reading more than once. I enjoyed it immensely.
