The Alphabet House
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525954897 (0525954899)
ASIN: 0525954899
Publish date: 2015-02-24
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
European Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
War,
Drama,
Crime,
World War II,
Suspense,
Scandinavian Literature,
Fiction,
Historical
I couldn’t describe the book any better so from the book cover:“During World War 2, two British pilots, James and Bryan, are shot down over Germany. They know that they will be executed if taken hostage. Pursued by German dog patrols, they manage to escape by jumping on to a German hospital train tr...
This is an ambitious psychological thriller that explores the limits of endurance and the irreparable breaches in friendships. This story is extremely detailed and begins in 1944 in the midst of WW11 when a pair of British pilots is shot down over enemy territory.Right from the first page I was swep...
This is an ambitious psychological thriller that explores the limits of endurance and the irreparable breaches in friendships. This story is extremely detailed and begins in 1944 in the midst of WW11 when a pair of British pilots is shot down over enemy territory.Right from the first page I was swep...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. Sometimes plots and ideas don’t just work for some readers. This is one of those books for me. The Alphabet House would make an excellent movie, but as a book it doesn’t quite fly. The story starts with two English fliers in World War II. They get sho...
To crash one's plane is terrifying, but to crash one's plane and land behind enemy lines must be a pilot's worst nightmare. In The Alphabet House, Jussi Adler-Olsen imagines an even worse fate for a pair of British pilots who've just crash landed near Freiburg, Germany in late 1943. To escape captur...
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