Resistance
- ISBN-10
- 0307385833
- ISBN-13
- 9780307385833
- Series
- Resistance
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-02
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Owen Sheers
Description
In 1944, after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied by enemy forces, and Sarah Lewis, a young farmer's wife, awakens to find that her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her remote Welsh village, a puzzle that is complicated by the arrival of a German patrol on a mysterious mission. A first novel. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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