by Olivia Manning
I've finished The Great Fortune, the first of the three books that make up this trilogy. ‘Such a war! An unexploded squib of a war! What folly ever to start it. The great nations think only of power. They do not think of the ones who suffer for such a war.’ War has well-and-truly broken out, an...
bookshelves: re-read, spring-2011, play-dramatisation, published-1981, wwii, war Read from April 04 to 11, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** A re-read via Stars Joanna Lumley.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/... " Young newlywed Harriet Pringle arrives in Bucharest in 1939, just as Europe is ab...
A re-read via Stars Joanna Lumley.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0101gl8/Fortunes_of_War_Episode_1/
Been dying to read this ever since I flipped through a large portion of this http://amzn.to/cho2B0 for a paper in college. The NYRB table at the Brooklyn Book Festival was, overall, the most tantalizing and hard to resist... I got away with only buying two books there, this included, and I consider ...
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