The Angel Flies to Stalingrad: The Brandt Family Chronicles

ISBN-13: 9781546846673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 382 str.

Oliver Fairfax

Opis

It's 1947. Berlin is destroyed. The peace is brutal, the weather cruel and food is short. In Volume 7 of the Brandt Family Chronicles, we meet Valentine Brandt, a Luftwaffe pilot, who was introduced to destruction, brutality and shortage in Stalingrad. To-day, the French, like the Russians and Americans, want a potato-patch where the rump of Germany stands. France again casts avaricious eyes at the mineral rich Saar and Ruhr. The British are broke and exhausted. The Germans have no friends and don't expect any. Valentine struggles in a world of scavengers, base threats and sudden death. A world where survival is not possible for all. Hope, like food, is rationed. Stalin will take West Berlin before all Europe in his next conquest where deprivation is a weapon. But American policy is changing and the door to recovery opens a little. Vital life signs stir, flicker and grow. Stalin tries to strangle them, and if you have been a Soviet prisoner, you know what it means to have his hands around your neck. Remember one of the Brandts shibboleths: 'Never put anyone in a position where they have nothing to lose, because they will fight.' This time, no guns, no dictator, no men, only scrap steel, resolve and American aid. But watch the miracle begin. The Berlin Airlift will succeed because General Clay says it will. Amid the splutter and roar of thousands of aircraft engines join Valentine in divided Berlin, survive, recover and prosper. A touch of larceny helps.

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