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CNIB
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English
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March, 1938. Austrian fascists run wild in the streets of Vienna. In Paris, Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress. He has been in Slovakia performing a quiet favour for his uncle, Polanyi, a diplomat. Desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, Polanyi trades in conspiracy, but it is Morath who does his work for him. Drawn deeper and deeper into danger, quiet favours become...
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Night soldiers volume 8
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English
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May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmö. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division...
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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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Publisher
Random House
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English
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Occupied Paris in 1942, a dark, treacherous city now ruled by the German security services. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off to Paul Ricard a strange looking drawing. It looks like a part for a military weapon - Ricard realizes it must be an important document smuggled out of Germany to aid the resistance. As Ricard is drawn deeper and deeper into the French resistance network, his increasingly dangerous assignments...
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English
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Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists.
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