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Night soldiers volume 13
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English
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"Alan Furst goes to war: Occupied Paris for the first time since Red Gold (1999 pub), Furst has set this novel during the war itself, instead of on the eve of the war. Members of the French Resistance network young and old, aristocrats and schoolteachers,defiant heroes and ordinary people all engaged in clandestine actions in the cause of freedom. From the secret hotels and Nazi-infested nightclubs of Paris to the villages of Rouen and Orleans. An...
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Night soldiers volume 1
Language
English
Description
Overview: Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau mode in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla...
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A French aristocrat working as a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937 tries to gather information for Poland and France, wondering what move Germany will make next. Romantic sparks fly between the French aristocrat's cousin and a Franco-Polish woman who works as a lawyer for The League of Nations, all against the backdrop of Hitler's gathering war.
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Series
Night soldiers volume 6
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Morath, a lieutenant in the Hungarian cavalry during World War I, runs an advertising agency in post-war Paris and agrees to gather intelligence in order to keep Hungary from becoming allied with Nazi Germany.
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Night soldiers volume 4
Language
English
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Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak. When he's offered the chance to take part in an operation of the British secret service, this idealism gives him the courage to say yes....
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Night soldiers volume 8
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of the staff and stowaways on a British spy ship on a secret mission in Sweden against the Nazis in 1941.
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