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OverviewThrough Peter von Vorzik's letters to his wife, family and comrades, as well as his journal readers get glimpses of the great aerial battles over Europe and North Africa and the final massed confrontations over Germany. With his brother a senior member of the SS and his sister married to an Italian count, there are also vignettes of the whole Nazi-Fascist hierarchy. Told in five sections this wartime epic is also a family saga that switches between scenes of family bliss and political intrigue until the Third Reich is engulfed in a Gutterdammerung of its own making. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edward ThorpePublisher: Arcadia Books Imprint: Arcadia Books Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 4.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.689kg ISBN: 9781900850971ISBN 10: 1900850974 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 02 September 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'Some of the best scenic writing ever met in a thriller. People real, too.' Sunday Telegraph Author InformationEdward Thorpe was dance critic of the Evening Standard and has written extensively elsewhere, for The Guardian, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He has published five books on danceas well as a successful novel, The Night I Caught the Santa Fe Cheif, which is currently being developed as a film. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |