Name: Madeleine's War
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Author: Peter Watson
ISBN: 9781101873427

Type

Physical Book

Author

Peter Watson

Publisher

Knopf

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13.2x2.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781101873427

Synopsis "Madeleine's War"

When Colonel Matthew Hammond was posted to the European theater during World War II, he sustained a serious injury on the front lines that cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but continuing to serve his country by training new resistance fighters in SC2, a specialist sabotage outfit. One of the recruits under his tutelage is the spellbinding Madeleine Dirac, an exotic French-Canadian nurse. Despite protocols discouraging romance, they fall deeply in love. Matthew is torn about putting Madeleine's life in danger: he has mixed duty and pleasure before, with tragic results--his former lover, Celestine, was killed in an attempt to assassinate a Nazi doctor. But the Allies are mustering all their resources for crucial beach landings in Normandy, and Matthew knows his unit will be needed to parachute its agents in behind Nazi lines. Vivid and unforgettable, Madeleine's War is a gripping tale of love in wartime--and of men and women caught in the sweep of history.

Peter Watson

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Peter Watson nació en 1943, es historiador y periodista. Estudió en las universidades de Durham, Londres y Roma. Fue nombrado editor de New Society y formó parte durante cuatro años del grupo «Insight» de The Sunday Times. También ha sido corresponsal de The Times en Nueva York y ha escrito para The Observer, The New York Times, Punch y The Spectator. Es autor de trece libros, entre los que destacan Historia intelectual del siglo XX (Crítica, 2004), Ideas. Historia intelectual de la humanidad (Crítica, 2008), La gran divergencia (Crítica, 2012), La edad de la nada (Crítica, 2014) y Convergencias (Crítica, 2017); y ha presentado diversos programas de televisión sobre arte. Desde 1998 es asociado de investigación en el McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, en la Universidad de Cambridge.

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