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by Don Bartlett (Translator), Don Shaw (Translator), Don Shaw (Translator), Roy Jacobsen (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 03 Mar 2016

ISBN 10: 1782069585
ISBN 13: 9781782069584

Media Reviews
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 Eidsvag * Adresseavisen *
You cannot put this book down -- Kjell Olaf Jensen, * Dagsavisen *
Author Bio
Roy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for Seierherrene in 1991, and Frost in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles.