The constant soldier / William Ryan.
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TextPublisher: London : Mantle, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 389 pages ; 25 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781447255017; 1447255011; 9781447255093 (paperback)Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, German -- Fiction | Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction | Soldiers -- Germany -- Fiction | Prisoners Fiction | War Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, German -- Fiction | Soldiers -- Germany -- Fiction | Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | Soldiers -- Fiction | Women prisoners -- Fiction | War stories | Prisoners -- Fiction | PrisonersGenre/Form: Historical fiction | War stories -- Fiction | War fiction | War stories | War stories. | War stories | Historical fiction. | Fiction. | War fiction. | War fiction. | Historical fiction. | War stories -- Fiction | War stories -- Fiction | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: SECOND WORLD WAR FICTION. The pain woke him up. He was grateful for it. The train had stopped and somewhere, up above them, the drone of aircraft engines filled the night sky. He could almost remember her smile ...It must be the morphine ...He had managed not to think about her for months now. 1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home much changed and existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners who - against all odds - have so far survived the war. When, by chance, Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realizes that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.
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SECOND WORLD WAR FICTION. The pain woke him up. He was grateful for it. The train had stopped and somewhere, up above them, the drone of aircraft engines filled the night sky. He could almost remember her smile ...It must be the morphine ...He had managed not to think about her for months now. 1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home much changed and existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners who - against all odds - have so far survived the war. When, by chance, Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realizes that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.
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