The earth and sky of Jacques Dorme : a novel / Andreï Makine ; translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan.
"The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death, a battle that ultimately will be decisive in determining the outcome of World War II. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged in a...
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| Other title: | Terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme. English |
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