End of Innocence e-bog
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In this enthralling story of love, loss, and divided loyalties, two students fall in love on the eve of WWI and must face a world at war-from opposing sides.Cambridge, MA, 1914: Helen Windship Brooks, the precocious daughter of the prestigious Boston family, is struggling to find herself at the renowned Harvard-Radcliffe university when carefree British playboy, Riley Spencer, and his brooding ...
E-bog
86,52 DKK
Forlag
Sourcebooks Landmark
Udgivet
26 august 2014
Længde
320 sider
Genrer
First World War fiction
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781492603849
In this enthralling story of love, loss, and divided loyalties, two students fall in love on the eve of WWI and must face a world at war-from opposing sides.Cambridge, MA, 1914: Helen Windship Brooks, the precocious daughter of the prestigious Boston family, is struggling to find herself at the renowned Harvard-Radcliffe university when carefree British playboy, Riley Spencer, and his brooding German poet-cousin, Wils Brandl, burst into her sheltered world. As Wils quietly helps the beautiful, spirited Helen navigate Harvard, they fall for each other against a backdrop of tyrannical professors, intellectual debates, and secluded boat rides on the Charles River.But with foreign tensions mounting and the country teetering on the brink of World War I, German-born Wils finds his future at Harvard-and in America-increasingly in danger. When both cousins are called to fight on opposing sides of the same war, Helen must decide if she is ready to fight her own battle for what she loves most.Based on the true story behind a mysterious and controversial World War I memorial at this world-famous university, The End of Innocence sweeps readers from the elaborate elegance of Boston's high society to Harvard's hallowed halls to Belgium's war-ravaged battlefields, offering a powerful and poignant vision of love and hope in the midst of a violent, broken world.