Seven Days in May e-bog
72,64 DKK
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In this, her third novel, Kim Izzo renders the last voyage of theLusitaniain such terrifyingly accurate detail that we readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed shipand in Winston Churchills ultra-secret lair, Room 40as the ineluctable forces of history converge.Erik Larson,bestselling author of The Splendid and the VileFor readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennife...
E-bog
72,64 DKK
Forlag
HarperCollins Publishers
Udgivet
25 april 2017
Længde
368 sider
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781443422512
In this, her third novel, Kim Izzo renders the last voyage of theLusitaniain such terrifyingly accurate detail that we readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed shipand in Winston Churchills ultra-secret lair, Room 40as the ineluctable forces of history converge.Erik Larson,bestselling author of The Splendid and the VileFor readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the authors family history.As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. Sydney has other adventures in mind; she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk. Undaunted, Sydney and Brooke board the Lusitania for the seven-day voyage with Edward, not knowing that disaster lies ahead.In London, Isabel Nelson, a young woman grateful to have escaped her blemished reputation in Oxford, has found employment at the British Admiralty in the mysterious Room 40. While she begins as a secretary, it isnt long before her skills in codes and cyphers are called on, and she learns a devastating truth and the true cost of war.As the days of the voyage pass, these four lives collide in a struggle for survival as the Lusitania meets its deadly fate.