This World War I novel is “a mystery as exciting as a good detective
story and an extraordinarily vivid account of trench-warfare” (The
Sunday Times). In November 1918, as the Germans are in their final
retreat, a British raiding party under fire follows the sound of piano
music and stumbles across an eerie scene in a ruined chateau. A German
officer lies dead at the keys, next to a beautiful woman, also
deceased, in full evening dress. But what makes their discovery
especially strange is that the man is the spitting image of G. B.
Bretherton, a British officer missing in action. This tale of mystery
and identity, first published in 1930, is not only an authentic
account of the brutal conditions at the battlefront, it’s also a
remarkable thriller with a twisting, unusual plot that earned it
comparisons to John Buchan and the best espionage writers. The Morning
Post called it “one of the best of the English war novels”—while
Sir John Squire, the influential editor of the London Mercury, went a
step further and labeled it “undoubtedly the best.” Eric Ambler,
the iconic author of such classics as A Coffin for Dimitrios and
Journey into Fear, considered it one of the five best spy novels of
all time. Fans of war stories and suspense novels alike—and readers
of modern WWI tales like Robert Olen Butler’s The Star of
Istanbul—will find themselves caught up in this lost gem from the
Great War era.
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ISBN
9781504040303
Publisert
2017
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Vendor
Casemate Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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