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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of The Tightening String to cart. $42.50, very good condition, Sold by Lee Madden Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brattleboro, VT, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Chatto & Windus.
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Very good; Collectible. Chatto and Windus, 1962; 1st printing. Very Good HC in Good DJ. Blue boards, gilt letters. Bright, clean covers and spine; very slight age darkening at cover edges; dust spotting on text block top edge; tightly bound; light foxing on end papers; very clean interior. DJ is lightly scuffed with very slight soiling; some age darkening on rear cover at edges; light edge wear, few chips at spine head. 12mo, 255 pp.
