Dark Star: Night Soldiers Series, Book 2
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Acclaimed author and historian Alan Furst has written several historical fiction novels, such as Blood of Victory and Kingdom of Shadows. In Dark Star, André Szara is a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Through Szara's character, the beginnings of World War II are revealed. Some of the events Szara sees are harsh and unforgettable. While working in Austria, he sees Hitler and his army march into Vienna and drag Jews into the streets, humiliating and beating them—often to death. Szara turns to drinking to help numb much of his pain as he finds a reliable confidant in Germany who is willing to give him undisclosed information about the war.
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OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
06/23/2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781449888275
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Alan Furst. (2004). Dark Star: Night Soldiers Series, Book 2. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Alan Furst. 2004. Dark Star: Night Soldiers Series, Book 2. Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Alan Furst, Dark Star: Night Soldiers Series, Book 2. Recorded Books, Inc, 2004.
MLA Citation (style guide)Alan Furst. Dark Star: Night Soldiers Series, Book 2. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2004.
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March 4, 1991
Furst ( Night Soldiers ) will make his mark with this intelligent, provocative and gripping novel. In 1933, Andre Szara, a highly regarded Polish-born foreign correspondent for Pravda , is asked to perform small espionage tasks by the NKVD. These assignments escalate, until Szara finds himself responsible for obtaining vital production figures from a German-Jewish industrialist who fabricates steel wire essential to airplanes. Inevitably, Szara's integrity as a journalist is also compromised. During this period of Stalinist purges, clearly and chillingly described by Furst, only unpredictability is certain. Szara senses the precariousness of his position, which is compounded by an urgent appeal from a wealthy Jewish Frenchman for Szara to honor his own Jewish heritage by trading his steel wire information to the British in exchange for desperately needed immigration certificates to mandated Palestine. Furst depicts the historical, geographic and political context in lucid and highly readable prose; his observation that Russia annexed Lithuania and Estonia while the world's attention was focused on France's struggle with Germany has an eerie timeliness. As darkness descends over Europe, Szara clings to life while simultaneously attempting to make some meaning of it. His story is not a pretty one; but it is beautifully and compellingly told.
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