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BORDERS
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| By: |
Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett (Trans), Don Shaw (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857053078 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857053077 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
5 March, 2015 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Translated from: |
Norwegian |
| Description: |
A story of impossible choices in a theatre of total war, where familial love, national identity, even military genius, count for nothing in the face of war's own all-consuming appetites. |
| Synopsis: |
Robert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G.I. who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and fell briefly into the arms of a Belgian nurse. Growing up with his mother in the lush forests of the Ardennes, Robert turns for guidance to his godfather, Markus Hebel, a Belgian who served in the German army in Russia. Breaking the silence around his painful past, Markus speaks of the consequences and madness of war - of the son he lost at Stalingrad and the courage of the men who tried to free the trapped German soldiers with a desperate charge across the frozen steppe. In so doing, Markus reveals a secret he has kept since the war, and a doubt that has gnawed at him for twenty years. Did he, a lowly radio operator, waste a chance to save an entire army from annihilation? |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
MacLehose Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |