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Description:Escape established Ethel Vance as a mature writer of dramatic fiction; Reprisal has the same excitement and suspense and understanding of European peoples.A German officer of occupation in the Brittany village of Rusquee is murdered; twenty hostages are destined to be shot if the murderer is not found within three days. The book centers around six people and their reactions to this murder and reprisal: Andre Galle, formerly a Socialist minister whose idealist efforts at appeasement have virtually stripped him of all democratic vitality; Edouard Schneider, whose opportunist traits have obtained him a high position in the Vichy government; Francoise, Galle's twenty-five-year-old daugher, bewildered by her father's defeatism and Edouard's brutal cynicism, but tinctured by their feelings; Blaise, Galle's eighteen-year-old son, whose political vacillations make him an uncertain quantity; Simon Astley, the young American painter who loves Francoise, a man who represents the intelligent and sensitive outsider caught up in the turmoil of international conflict; and Maurice, Galle's butler, a loyal member of the household though he was once convicted of murder.Out of the intruige, the horror, the fear, and the tension that the search of the German officers begets comes a love story at once tender and appealing, a picture of occupied France revealed in warmly human terms, and all the nerve-tingling drama which characterized Escape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reprisal. To get started finding Reprisal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 334

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Release: 1943

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Description: Escape established Ethel Vance as a mature writer of dramatic fiction; Reprisal has the same excitement and suspense and understanding of European peoples.A German officer of occupation in the Brittany village of Rusquee is murdered; twenty hostages are destined to be shot if the murderer is not found within three days. The book centers around six people and their reactions to this murder and reprisal: Andre Galle, formerly a Socialist minister whose idealist efforts at appeasement have virtually stripped him of all democratic vitality; Edouard Schneider, whose opportunist traits have obtained him a high position in the Vichy government; Francoise, Galle's twenty-five-year-old daugher, bewildered by her father's defeatism and Edouard's brutal cynicism, but tinctured by their feelings; Blaise, Galle's eighteen-year-old son, whose political vacillations make him an uncertain quantity; Simon Astley, the young American painter who loves Francoise, a man who represents the intelligent and sensitive outsider caught up in the turmoil of international conflict; and Maurice, Galle's butler, a loyal member of the household though he was once convicted of murder.Out of the intruige, the horror, the fear, and the tension that the search of the German officers begets comes a love story at once tender and appealing, a picture of occupied France revealed in warmly human terms, and all the nerve-tingling drama which characterized Escape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reprisal. To get started finding Reprisal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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