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Cargando... Cold Victory (edición 2024)por Karl Marlantes (Autor)
Información de la obraCold Victory por Karl Marlantes
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A quick read, set in post World War II Finland featuring the relationship of U.S. and Russian veterans on assignment there, and their wives. I found the Cold War setting and history of the region interesting, but the relationships among them seemed a bit contrived and unrealistic. I've not yet read the author's highly regarded Matterhorn, so I can't really compare to that one. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachaes. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly-but secret-cross-country wilderness race. Louise is delighted, but Natalya is worried. Stalin and Beria's secret police rule with unforgiving brutality. If news of the race gets out and Mikhail loses, Natalya knows it would mean his death, her imprisonment, and the loss of her two children. Meanwhile, Louise, who is childless, uses the raceas an opportunity to raise money for a local orphanage, naive to the danger it will bring to Natalya and her family. Too late to stop Louise's scheme, a horrified Natalya watches as news of the race spreads across the globe as newspapers and politicians spin it as a symbolic battle: freedom versus communism. Desperate to undo her mistake, Louise must reach Arnie to tell him to throw the race and save Mikhail-but how? The two racers are in a world of their own, unreachable in Finland's arctic wilderness."-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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