Isbn: 9781609455002 - hear our defeats (10 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Signed by author on title page. Softcover original, in French flaps. Signed by Author(s).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 'propulsive' historical novel about the battles-won, lost, and ongoing-that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (Library Journal, starred review).Assem, a French intelligence officer, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the US Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the war in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut, he shares a night with Mariam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a race against time to save ancient artifacts across the Middle East from the destruction wreaked by ISIS.Woven into these two forceful, gripping storylines are meditations on humankind's bellicose history-Hannibal's failed march on Rome and the burning of his fleet on the waters of the Mediterranean; Grant's pursuit of the Confederates into rural Virginia; Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; and Emp. Haile Selassie's swift retreat from Ethiopia: all turning points in world history, each showing a different facet of how nations and individuals face defeat.This novel is filled with both a philosophical sensibility and a riveting immediacy, seamlessly taking us across the battlefields of our past to reflect on the implications of conflicts being waged today.'Hear Our Defeats is not a conventional historical novel, in the sense of trying to recreate the past imaginatively. Rather, it draws on a series of past episodes, from four discrete epochs-deliberately separated in time and place-to convey a message about time, violence and humanity.'-The Times Literary Supplement.…

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