The tightening string
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Ann Bridge [pseud.
Edition: 1st ed.]
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Description: Set in 1940. After the Dunkirk evacuation, 44,000 British soldiers are now prisoners of war in Germany and are in need of basic necessities such as food and blankets. Rosina Eynsham, wife of the Counsellor of the British Legation in Hungary, finds herself overseeing the effort to get supplies through to the prisoners, through the only viable route still left open. And all the while the threat of a German occupation of Hungary is growing more menacing.