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Informationen zum Autor Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He is the son of Welsh parents and was educated at the Dragon School! at Eton and at Yale. His novels include Night Over Day Over Night ! Calm at Sunset! Calm at Dawn ! In the Blue Light of African Dreams ! The Promise of Night ! Archangel ! The Story of My Disappearance and The Forger . He has also written about his experiences at public school! in Stand Before Your God . He was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1992 and 1996! and won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Best Regional Novel of the Year in 1996. He lives in the USA. The Ice Soldier by Paul Watkins is an action-packed adventure story set in Britain and the Alps in the aftermath of the Second World War. Zusammenfassung While the eyes of the world are focused upon attempts to scale Mount Everest, two young men - once members of the world's climbing elite, subsequently forced into premature retirement after the failure of a secret military operation in the Alps during World War II - have become outcasts of mountaineering society.
