A Foreign Field (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2010-08-05
Förlag
HarperPress
Illustratör/Fotograf
35 b, Index w plates
Illustrationer
35 b/w plates (16pp), Index
Dimensioner
199 x 130 x 22 mm
Vikt
230 g
ISBN
9780007395262

A Foreign Field

A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War

av Ben Macintyre
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-08-05
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A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and Agent Zig-Zag. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of Villeret, where they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including the local matriarch Madame Dessenne, the baker and his wife. The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives, Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the 20-year-old-daughter of one of his protectors, and in November 1915 she gives birth to a baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and summarily condemned to death. Using the testimonies of the daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and, most movingly, the soldiers last letters, Ben Macintyre reconstructs an extraordinary story of love, duplicity and shame ultimately seeking to discover through decades of village rumour the answer to the question, Who betrayed Private Digby and his men? In this new updated edition the mystery is finally solved.
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A simple and touching tale of self-sacrificing courage and love in war turns into a page-turning mystery and a spy story worthy of Deighton or le Carre. I loved it The Times I loved A Foreign Field, the true story of an English soldier stranded behind enemy lines at once a great romance, a war story, a social history and a whodunit Sunday Telegraph At the simplest level this is a love story. Stirring, ambitious and profound, this is storytelling at its very best Sunday Times The true story of seven British soldiers trapped behind enemy lines, with brilliant research, [Macintyre has] built a powerful picture of what life was like for the Picardy villagers who protected them. I was fascinated Evening Standard

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Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of Agent Zigzag, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Tesco Biography of the Year at the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

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