Mackenzie Ford
Autore di Gifts of War
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Opere di Mackenzie Ford
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Watson, Peter Frank
- Altri nomi
- Watson, Peter
- Data di nascita
- 1943-04-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Durham University (BA, Psychology, 1964)
University of London (PhD)
Rome University - Breve biografia
- Random House: Mackenzie Ford is the nom de plume of a well-known and respected writer of history whose books are published in seventeen languages. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the London Times, the Observer, the Spectator and the Sunday Times. He was for ten years a research associate at the Macdonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, during which time he wrote a book that was voted by Time magazine as one of the ten best books of 2006.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 389
- Popolarità
- #62,204
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 54
- ISBN
- 16
Format Hardcover (edit)
Review Gifts of War opens in the trenches with the WWI Christmas Truce of 1914.
British second lieutenant Hal Montgomery tells his soldiers to hold their fire.
Hal faces Oberleutnant Wilhelm Wetzlar in the "informal, unauthorized truce."
Hal is proficient in German and Wilhelm in English.
Wilhelm shows a picture of a beautiful young English woman (Sam) (Sally Ann Margaret Ross),his fianc��. ...
He was in England, prewar, in an exchange course.
They fell in love and were engaged before he was recalled to Germany.
"I have a favor, Hal"....
"This is a photo of me in uniform.....
Sam of course, has never seen it....
Can you see she gets it?" ....
The first thing I will do when this war is over is go looking for her.
This photo will tell her all she needs to know"
The story is fueled by layer after layer of deception, as Hal meet and falls in love with Sam.
The photo remains hidden and the request unspoken.
Hal (post injury) is now in military intelligence.
His ventures provide the dangerous, fast paced portion of the novel.
Til novel's end, we walk among "corrosive" and penetrating effects of war ( on military and civilian).
The ending?...no comment...read the story and let me know what you think. (… (altro)