The fortunes of war
Subtitle: the Balkan trilogy
By: by Olivia Manning ; introduction by Rachel Cusk.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 924
ISBN-13: 9781590173312
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Balkan trilogy
Description: At the heart of the trilogy are newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest{u2014}the so-called Paris of the East{u2014}in the fall of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy, an Englishman teaching at the university, is as wantonly gregarious as his wife is introverted, and Harriet is shocked to discover that she must share her adored husband with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own, as great in its way as the still-expanding theater of war.
Table of contents: title: The great fortune; title: The spoilt city; title: Friends and heroes.