Fortunes of War

Olivia Manning

Original title: Fortunes of war

earliest edition we have, 1994 New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, 2014

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"It's the spring of 1941 and the German army's eastward march appears unstoppable. In the Egyptian desert, the young officer Simon Boulderstone, twenty years old and wet behind the ears, waits in dreadful anticipation of his first experience of combat. The people of Cairo are waiting, too. In crowded apartments, refugees from Europe wait; in palm-shaded mansions, Anglo-Egyptians wait. At night they are joined in the...

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Fortunes of War edition · 2014 · New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 9781306910613
Fortunes of war edition · 2014 · 568 pages · 9781590177211
Fortunes of War edition · 1994 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9780297815051

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