Another action-packed book in the "After Dunkirk" series! The story continues and the action is non-stop. The story makes excellent use of historical events to weave the characters into history. A great read! I have read all six in the series and anxiously await the next chapter!

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“Driving the Tide” is the sixth novel in the “After Dunkirk” series, a family saga set amidst World War II. I have not read the preceding volumes. I thought some parts of this story were well done, but that other aspects need more work. In particular, “Driving the Tide” would benefit from a story edit.

Author Lee Jackson is a retired Army officer turned writer. He’s at his best when writing about actual combat. I found some of his combat scenes quite gripping.

For me, however, much of the rest of the novel was not as enjoyable. There are long digressions into backstory, some of which are repetitious. And there are equally long explanatory segues concerning tactical matters. These might interest lovers of military history, but I found they didn't add to, and actually got in the way of, the storytelling. Some of these digressions and segues were conveyed entirely by dialogue, making the characters and scenes seem unrealistic. Often, as I read, I thought: people just don’t talk this way.

I realize that a great deal of work went into researching this novel, and that’s to be admired. However, so much of that research was included that it dragged at the plot and bogged it down, driving me out of, rather than immersing me in, the story.

A great story of the fight to free Southern France and Italy from the views of the men who fought with the Allies to the women who fought with the Resistance to free their country from the Nazis.