The Balkan Trilogy #03: Friends And Heroes

The Balkan Trilogy #03: Friends And Heroes
Olivia Manning
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
11 Feb 2021 UK
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9781786091543
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Harriet Pringle is newly arrived in Athens. Having fled Nazi-occupied Rumania, she anxiously awaits news of her husband Guy, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. When the young couple are reunited, in the sunlight of a capital still at peace, they have little idea of the problems still to come. Greece is invaded by the Italians and work is scarce; hardly the best time for a marriage to flourish. Guy, as ever, is engrossed in his work and the problems of others, and when Harriet is diverted by a handsome young officer, their marriage seems doomed. But when Greece is defeated, and as Europe disintegrates around them, Guy and Harriet are forced to find a new strength in a crumbling world of turmoil.

(Omnibus)
#02: Spoilt City, The
#03: Friends And Heroes

Magnificent . . . full of wit, sharp insight and vivid description. * The Times * Wonderfully entertaining * Observer * A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war -- Sarah Waters So glittering is the overall parade . . . and so entertaining the surface that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do these things so elegantly is no small achievement' * Sunday Times * One most salute the brilliance . . . the exactness of sights and sounds, the precise touches of light and scent, the gestures and entrances. * Guardian *
Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, spent much of her youth in Ireland and, as she puts it, had ' the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere' . The daughter of a naval officer, she produced her first novel, The Wind Changes, in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R. D. Smith, a British Council lec-turer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781786091543
Published: 11 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Windmill Books
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 266g
Pages: 384

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