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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.
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.
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.
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?
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With its mix of vivid characters, real and fictional, struggling to make sense of the excesses of war and its aftermath, this is a strange but compelling novel. I highly recommend it (Rupert Godsal Country Life)
An iconic Norwegian writer (Boyd Tonkin Independent)
A great European novel (Terje Eidsvåg Adresseavisen)
You cannot put this book down (Kjell Olaf Jensen, Dagsavisen)
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A story of impossible choices in a theatre of total war, where familial love, national identity, even military genius, count for nothing in the face of war's own all-consuming appetites.
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- PublisherMacLehose Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1782069585
- ISBN 13 9781782069584
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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