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The Great Swindle
- Prize-winning historical fiction by a master of suspense
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Great Swindle af Pierre Lemaitre, 9781848665798
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
464
ISBN-13:
9781848665798
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1848665792
Udg. Dato:
3 nov 2016
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 12,8 x 2,9
Oplagsdato:
3 nov 2016
Forfatter(e):

The Great Swindle

- Prize-winning historical fiction by a master of suspense
Engelsk
Paperback 2016
Format:

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Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, a timeless story of how war transforms lives in unexpected and often tragic ways as seen through the eyes of three World War I vets

The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D''Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines.

When another of D''Aulnay-Pradelle''s soldiers, Albert Maillard, reaches the bodies and discovers how they died, the lieutenant shoves him into a shell hole to silence him. Albert is rescued by fellow soldier, the artist Edouard Péricourt, who takes a bullet in the face. The war ends and both men recover, but Edouard is permanently disfigured, and fakes his death to prevent his family from seeing him as a cripple. In gratitude for Edouard''s rescue, Albert becomes the injured man''s companion and caregiver.

Finding that the postwar gratitude for the soldiers'' service is nothing more than lip-service to an empty idea, the two men scramble to survive, ultimately devising a scam to take money for never-to-be-built war memorials from small towns. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pradelle has married Edouard''s sister Madeline and is running a scam of his own that involves the exhumation of war victims.

In this sorrowful, heart-searching novel, the interwoven lives of these three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
464
ISBN-13:
9781848665798
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1848665792
Udg. Dato:
3 nov 2016
Størrelse i cm:
19,7 x 12,8 x 2,9
Oplagsdato:
3 nov 2016
Forfatter(e):
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