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Автор: Lemaitre Pierre
Название: The Great Swindle
ISBN: 9781681443935
Издательство: Hodder
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1681443937
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 464
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 06.09.2016
Язык: English
Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry DAulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines.
When another of DAulnay-Pradelles soldiers, Albert Maillard, reaches the bodies and discovers how they died, the lieutenant shoves him into a shell hole to silence him. Albert is rescued by fellow soldier, the artist Edouard Pericourt, who takes a bullet in the face. The war ends and both men recover, but Edouard is permanently disfigured, and fakes his death to prevent his family from seeing him as a cripple. In gratitude for Edouards rescue, Albert becomes the injured mans companion and caregiver.
Finding that the postwar gratitude for the soldiers service is nothing more than lip-service to an empty idea, the two men scramble to survive, ultimately devising a scam to take money for never-to-be-built war memorials from small towns. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pradelle has married Edouards sister Madeline and is running a scam of his own that involves the exhumation of war victims.
In this sorrowful, heart-searching novel, the interwoven lives of these three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure.

The Great Swindle, Lemaitre Pierre