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I Figli del Disastro

Questa saga epica si svolge nel turbolento periodo tra le due guerre mondiali, approfondendo gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana come l'avidità e la ricerca del potere. La serie cattura magistralmente l'atmosfera di un'Europa devastata dalla guerra, dove i personaggi, spesso segnati dal conflitto, navigano in un mondo caotico alla ricerca di significato e sopravvivenza. Intreccia una narrazione avvincente ricca di colpi di scena inaspettati, arguzia tagliente e profonde riflessioni sulle illusioni rispetto alla realtà. I lettori troveranno un'esplorazione avvincente di una generazione perduta che lotta con le conseguenze della guerra e lo sfruttamento degli ideali.

Mirror of our Sorrows
The Great Swindle
All Human Wisdom

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    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

    The Great Swindle
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