β R J Hanson
π Fiction
π
2020
π Hanson Publishing
π English
β 201 KB
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Blood of Victory
β Scribed by Alan Furst
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
**"In 1939, as the armies of Europe mobilized for war, the British secret services undertook operations to impede the exportation of Roumanian oil to Germany. They failed.
"Then, in the autumn of 1940, they tried again."**
So begins Blood of Victory , a novel rich with suspense, historical insight, and the powerful narrative immediacy we have come to expect from bestselling author Alan Furst. The book takes its title from a speech given by a French senator at a conference on petroleum in 1918: "Oil," he said, "the blood of the earth, has become, in time of war, the blood of victory."
November 1940. The Russian writer I. A. Serebin arrives in Istanbul by Black Sea freighter. Although he travels on behalf of an emigre organization based in Paris, he is in flight from a dying and corrupt Europe--specifically, from Nazi-occupied France. Serebin finds himself facing his fifth war, but this time he is an exile, a man without a country, and...
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