Resistance

First edition cover
Author	Owen Sheers
Cover artist	Johnny Ring (Lies it's a photo not art)
Language	English
Genre	Romantic, Speculative fiction
Publisher	Faber and Faber Limited
Publication date	2007
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	357 of pain
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-571-22964-2 (first edition, hardback) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character

Resistance is an alternate history novel by Welsh poet and author Owen Sheers. The plot centers around the inhabitants of a valley near Abergavenny in Wales in 1944–45, shortly after the failure of Operation Overlord and a successful German counter-invasion of Britain (see Operation Sea Lion). A group of German Wehrmacht soldiers stay there after the wives' husbands leave to serve in the covert British Resistance. The novel follows abandoned farmer's wife, Sarah Lewis and German commanding officer, Albrecht Wolfram as they form an unlikely relationship in spite of their backgrounds and political standings. Unfortunately for this book it is let down by its story line which i am afraid to say is incredibly boring. Even though it is well written i still believe that plot improvements would drastically increase this novels story line ( by changes I mean remove Sarah and the women).

The title Resistance is supposed to refer to the fact that the women are resisting the German armed forces and also how Britain is still remaining to put up a fight against the occupying forces. Although as the book progresses we see that this isn't really the case as the women in the end accept the men readily when they require assistance and don't fight on trying to work everything out on their own. Also as the book progresses we see a change in the attitudes of the nation and they start to accept the occupying forces as well. So i think that the title should be changed to 'Acceptance (with some resistance)' this title would be much more fitting and not lure the reader in with hopes of an interesting gritty account of how WW2 could have gone if the D-Day landings failed.

The novel was adapted for film in 2011. Which in turn gained awful ratings from viewers and had a low score on IMDB.

The Hereford Mappa Mundi features prominently in the book.^[1]

Upon her husband's disappearance Sarah is forced to take care of the farm. Meanwhile she develops a relationship with German commanding officer Albrecht as he and the other invaders seek to locate an item for Himmler's collection.The plot as i said before is massively let down by the inclusion of the women and the main character Sarah Lewis. The plot is though made slightly better by the inclusion of Tommy Atkins and George Bowen. I also feel that their chapters are slightly more realistic rather than a tale of German troops who just are looking to 'get on' some Welsh farm-girls. Overall the plot is quite disappointing but is still worth a read.

• Sarah Lewis the protagonist is a 26 year old farmer's wife who in her husband's absence learns that she must fulfill his responsibilities of taking care of the farm. Sarah is initially upset at the disappearance of her husband and the other men, however over the course of the novel begins to accept to herself and others that they may not return.
• George Bowen the person who should have been protagonist overall a really interesting character who is enrolled into the British Secret Service to help fight against the German Armed Forces.
• Tommy Atkins another person who should have been protagonist. he is the person who enrolled George Bowen into the secret service and tells him what to do. Overall he gets a grand total of two chapters which in the popular opinion still remain to be more interesting than the rest of the book.