Chapters 39 through 44 Summary

There follows another excerpt from Roon's book. He notes the German people now are "cowed" because "twelve brief years of Nazi mistakes and crimes have eclipsed the proud record of centuries." However, in the summer of 1942, the Germans were mighty and in control. Soon after, the Allies met the Japanese at Guadalcanal where seven of the eleven Japanese ships were sank.

Natalie and her party are in Elba, living in a small, dilapidated cottage. They are sometimes fed by peasants and sometimes buy food on their own. They have been here for some days and Natalie is beginning to worry when a man, Pascal, knocks at their door and says they are to come with him. Castlenuovo, the doctor in the party, knows the man and they make first a wagon trip down the mountain, then a dangerous water crossing before...