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@2@Robert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G.I. who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and fell briefly into the arms of a Belgian nurse.@3@@2@Growing up with his mother in the lush forests of the Ardennes, Robert turns for guidance to his godfather, Markus Hebel, a Belgian who served in the German army in Russia.@3@@2@Breaking the silence around his painful past, Markus speaks of the consequences and madness of war - of the son he lost at Stalingrad and the courage of the men who tried to free the trapped German soldiers with a desperate charge across the frozen steppe.@3@@2@In so doing, Markus reveals a secret he has kept since the war, and a doubt that has gnawed at him for twenty years. Did he, a lowly radio operator, waste a chance to save an entire army from annihilation?@3@

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Authors Roy Jacobsen, Jacobsen Roy
Assisted by Don Bartlett (Translation), Bartlett Don (Translation), Don Shaw (Translation)
Publisher Quercus Publishing
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.03.2017
 
EAN 9781782069584
ISBN 978-1-78206-958-4
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 128 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Historical fiction, Russia, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, Belgium, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Europe / Western, War & combat fiction, Second World War, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

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