Blockbuster historical fiction about WWII with all that entails - greedy, cold nazis, impassioned townspeople resisters, troops tramping through frozen Russia, arrests and hiding...all to be expected but somehow extra fictional here. Also, I love Claire de Lune as much as the next person but could it hurt to find a piece of music that hasn't already been used in Ocean's Eleven, Seven Year's in Tibet and Twilight? I suppose that's my whole quibble with the novel - like there was market research done to see what American audiences would like from a WWII book.