Author : Ann Bridge
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448207118
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Book Synopsis The Tightening String by : Ann Bridge
Download or read book The Tightening String written by Ann Bridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel records the lives of a group of English diplomats in Budapest from the Spring of 1940, up to the entry of the Germans which compels them to leave in Easter 1941. Crossing the Russian frontier en route for Moscow and the U.S.A., an episode at once dramatic and distinctly comic, sees the characters' main pre-occupation as less about their own predicament than the desperate and sustained endeavour to send food and clothing to the 44,000 British prisoners-of-war in Germany, during those first months when no Red Cross Parcels from England reached the camps. A touching love-story, a personal tragedy, and a disconcerting glimpse of treachery are skilfully interwoven in this revealing book.