During the summer of 1939, Peter Robertson travels to Ouistreham in Normandy for a short holiday but doesn't plan on falling in love with Adele, a beautiful Jewish girl. Peter returns to England and when Germany invades France, despite smuggled letters the couple lose contact. Peter becomes a medic in the Royal Navy witnessing death and destruction at sea. He then volunteers for medical duties with the Royal Marine Commandos. On D-Day, his hopes of finding Adele are raised when he learns he is to land with 41 Commando at Ouistreham code-named Sword Beach. By sheer chance Peter learns Adele and her parents are gone. In 1946 Peter returns to Normandy determined to find the woman he loves and unexpectedly comes face to face with atrocities committed during the Nazi occupation. But the burning question remains... what has happened to Adele? Using archive material, first hand reports and eyewitness accounts of events the author has strived to weave a love story, sometimes quite raunchy, into a factual background.The main characters are fictitious but the actions are real.