Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934–45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale.
Die Nachtsoldaten Reihe
Diese fesselnde Spionagerei-Saga entführt die Leser in das Europa der 1930er und 1940er Jahre. Verfolgen Sie die geheimen Operationen und persönlichen Opfer von Agenten vor und während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Die Reihe verwebt gekonnt Geschichten von Verrat, Mut und der hochgefährlichen Welt der internationalen Spionage. Sie bietet eine packende Reise in die Schatten eines Kontinents im Krieg.
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Dark Star
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Das Reich der Schatten
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Die Stunde des Wolfs
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Spies of Warsaw
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Mission to Paris
- 272 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Autumn 1939. In Paris American motion picture producer Frederic Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America -- who can travel across the continent freely -- Stahl could be very useful indeed.
Midnight in Europe
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Paris, 1938. Democratic forces are locked in struggle as the shadow of war edges over Europe. Cristián Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is approached to help a clandestine agency supply weapons to beleaguered Republican forces. He agrees, putting his life on the line. Joining Ferrar in his mission is an unlikely group of allies: idealists and gangsters, arms dealers, aristocrats and spies. From libertine nightclubs in Paris to shady bars by the docks in Gdansk, Furst paints a spell-binding portrait of a continent marching into a nightmare - and the heroes and heroines who fought back.
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