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While Still We Live (1944)

par Helen MacInnes

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English girl Sheila Matthews' innocent holiday to Poland becomes a nightmare when the German Army invade in the summer of 1939. Working for the Polish underground as a double-agent, she plays a dangerous game, and is soon suspected by the Germans. Forced to flee to the forest and hunted by a ruthless German officer, she must rely on the dashing Captain Adam Wisniewski to help her home.

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A bit of a history lesson on WWII from one point of view. Sometimes drags in the detailing. ( )
  jochemsj | Nov 1, 2023 |
The novel is set in Poland in August 1939 just before the Germans invaded. People are enjoying the last days of summer as the tension builds. Many don't think the threat is real but others with inside knowledge know there is danger. All this is narrated through the eyes of Sheila Mathews, a young English woman who has come to Poland to visit her elderly aunt. She is so taken with Poland and her aunt that she extends her stay until it is tool late. Then she falls in love with a Polish army officer, becomes involved with the Gestapo, masquerades as a German woman and eventually flees across Poland just steps ahead of the pursuing Gestapo while participating in guerrilla warfare.

The narrative does give a great description of life in occupied Poland. The book was published in 1944 so does not have the advantage of hindsight so some assumptions expressed by the characters did not come about as hoped. Interestingly, there is mention of Jews and the Holocaust or the Warsaw Ghetto.

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  lamour | Jan 25, 2023 |
This title originally was titled The Unconquerable (I think in the British market). A vintage tale which was one of those narratives that had me going on and on in my head, "Fer crying out loud, you dumb woman, get out of Poland right now".
Sheila is British and winds up being co-opted into being a double agent. That led to a very implausible situation because at no moment was there any indication that she's trained in spy craft, that she thinks quickly and assertively, ot that she has the foggiest notion of the political situation. A rather dimly-conceived story, which I wouldn't expect from this author.

My memory of this tale (caveat: having read it some 40 years ago) was that the story was exciting and featured such a courageous heroine. Well, not. How time and distance lends a different interpretation to stories like this! Other thriller-espionage books by MacInnes are better crafted. I awarded 3-stars because other than the major implausibility niggle, it was a good espionage-chase-and-escape story for those who like that untrammelled adventure. ( )
  SandyAMcPherson | Aug 8, 2021 |
I really felt sorry for Sheila. She was caught up in a situation not of her own making. I can't imagine what you would do if you were "drafted" out the blue to be a spy. She was a most unlikely spy...the Nazi's must have been desperate. Along the way she experiences betrayal from Nazi collaborators and selfless sacrifice by ordinary people trying to help her escape. The best thing she got out the entire deal is she met the love of her life...so a little romance thrown in. It's a fairly long book...676 pages... but the pace is slow as the story unwinds. A story well told and diffidently worth the time and effort. ( )
  Carol420 | Mar 2, 2019 |
Sheila Matthews, English but fluent in German, is in Poland when the Nazis invade at the beginning of the Second World War. She ends up having to flee from a German army officer who’s convinced she’s a spy. I found this story initially compelling, particularly because of the female protagonist, but I eventually became bogged down and bored when Sheila was not present in the story. Also, the edition I read (an ebook from the library) was riddled with typos, which were distracting. I may try again someday in print, or I may not. I’ll keep trying other books by MacInnes, though. ( )
  rabbitprincess | Dec 14, 2018 |
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While still we live


These are the opening words of the Song of the Polish Legions. It was first sung in the black year of 1797, when Poland had been divided between the three empires of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and her exiled sons were fighting in the Legions under the gallant General Dombrowski. Thereafter, during the nineteenth century, with its incessant bloody revolts against foreign tyranny, the Song of the Legions spread secretly all over Poland, giving encouragement and hope to all those who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the future freedom of their country. Such was its power and so glorious was its history that it became the national anthem of liberated Poland; and even under new oppressors it is still sung by the Polish people, who refuse to become slaves. The noble truth of its words has been proven by history, past and present: no nation, no cause will ever die if it breeds the kind of man who is willing to sacrifice everything for it, even his life.
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