Skeletons at the feast
By: Chris Bohjalian
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781407441573
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; Jews; Military Air pilots; History
Description: War stories. In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is 18-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a 21-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the stalag to her family's farm as forced labour. And there is 26-year-old Wehrmacht corporal, who the pair know as Manfred - who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed to escape a train bound for Auschwitz. As they work their way west, they encounter a countryside ravaged by war. Their flight will test both Anna's and Callum's love, as well as their friendship with Manfred - assuming any of them survive.
Notes: Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2008.