Amazon Category:  Historical Fiction Publisher: Fine Line Publishing ISBN-10:  0974990639 Type: Fiction Pages: 130 Copyright: March 17, 2007 ISBN-13: 9780974990637 Price: $12.95 (eBook) a novel set in 1914-15 during a period in World War I when it seemed the fighting would never end. From the first pages, the author brings the WWI era to life and the reader feels everything that an eyewitness must have felt. One begins to understand the struggles of allied soldiers trapped in occupied Belgium, and the sacrifices some people made in helping them escape to Holland and freedom.

Historical Novel Society
Do I have to remind you all that we are in occupied Belgium and not some tavern in Nottingham? British nurse Edith Cavell admonishes some drunken corporals in De Angelo's short 2007 novel, but there is no danger readers of Between the Sword and the Wall will forget it.

In only a little more than 100 pages, De Angelo manages to create as richly believable an atmosphere of WWI-era German-occupied Belgium as many novels have failed to do at three times the length.

His story centers around Cavell, the cool, controlled, and compassionate moral focal point of Belgium's underground resistance to the invading Germans, a caregiver who treated every wounded patient who came before her, regardless of their nationality, and who was eventually arrested, tried, condemned, and executed by the Germans. She is a fascinating and too-little-known icon of civilian courage, and De Angelo's novel brings her wonderfully alive on the page. His depiction of Cavell and the resistance is unstinting and unsentimental, which adds tremendously to the novel's dramatic punch. --Historical Novel Society