Questa trilogia si addentra nel cuore dei conflitti bellici e del loro profondo impatto sulle vite individuali. Ogni romanzo svela dettagli intimi di personaggi i cui destini sono intrecciati con le intense esperienze della guerra e delle sue conseguenze. La serie esplora magistralmente la resilienza dello spirito umano di fronte a immense sofferenze. Offre un esame potente e commovente della sopravvivenza e della perdita.
A haunting historical novel set in France between the two world wars about love and desireFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BIRDSONGMid-1930s, Northern France. At the hotel, Anne meets the cultured, rich and married Hartmann and begins anaffair with the married Great War veteran, revealing her secrets, fears and hopes to him.
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
An undercover courier for England goes behind enemy lines to track down her lover, who is an RAF pilot downed over France.