Secret ProtocolsPeter Owen, 2006 - 357 ページ Set in wartime Estonia, this was the last novel by Peter Vansittart, one of the greatest historical novelists of the 20th century.Erich's odyssey begins when his Estonian childhood is ended by the outbreak of World War II. He arrives in 1945 Paris, where his life seems full of promise. But a love affair drives him to England to work for the Estonian government-in-exile. His imagined island of monarchs, Churchill, and gentlemen evaporates into one of scornful youth, insular adults, and an underground of spies, political crooks, and fanatics. Sojourns in Europe further underline that war and corruption are not extinct and that, in his own life, the most profound shocks are those of friendship and love. Beneath the drift towards a united Europe, Erich realizes that treaties do not always end war, that solemn rites cannot guarantee love, and that the inevitable can fail to happen." |
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... imagined , his smile hideously dividing his face , photographs of abstruse sexual practices . ' Funderland , of a sort . Very foreign . ' A Peruvian doctor , flashing his rings , was convinced that the Latvians were artists . ' Art ...
... imagined , his smile hideously dividing his face , photographs of abstruse sexual practices . ' Funderland , of a sort . Very foreign . ' A Peruvian doctor , flashing his rings , was convinced that the Latvians were artists . ' Art ...
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Peter Vansittart. pillars , the drabness . ' People imagined spirits trapped in buildings , in ships , by some curse , sin , mistake , and straining towards us , Merlin trapped in a tree , old people imprisoned in rest homes . ' Her ...
Peter Vansittart. pillars , the drabness . ' People imagined spirits trapped in buildings , in ships , by some curse , sin , mistake , and straining towards us , Merlin trapped in a tree , old people imprisoned in rest homes . ' Her ...
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... imagined horns , ribs , rotting carcasses as the wagons roll west , guarded by Wayne , Stewart , Fonda , though Dick's greedy eyes had the leer , the bar - room joke , men , indeed women , imagining Nadja's curves , dark crevices , the ...
... imagined horns , ribs , rotting carcasses as the wagons roll west , guarded by Wayne , Stewart , Fonda , though Dick's greedy eyes had the leer , the bar - room joke , men , indeed women , imagining Nadja's curves , dark crevices , the ...
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Alex amongst Baltic Balts beneath Berlin birds blue Bomb British called Claire colours Conference dance dark dead despite Dick door Embassy empty English Erich Estonian Europe European eyes face Father fear flowers Forest Brothers Forest Uncle French Führer garden German Gestapo girl glance glass green grey hair hand head heard Herr General's humour imagined John Rabe joke July Plot knew Latvians laugh less light London looked lost Malraux Marc-Henri Meinnenberg Moscow Mother movie murmured Nadja naked never night nodded Ogygia once Pact Pahlen Paris peace perhaps Polish political Red Army refused Reich Reichsmarschall remembered Rose Russian secret shadows shrugged silence Sinclair smile Soviet spoke Stalin Stefan George stories streets Suzie talk Tallinn thought trees Turret vanished Vello village voice watch Wehrmacht West Germany Wilfrid Wolf's Lair words young youth