Slapton Sands - Couverture rigide

Cottam, Francis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743248023 ISBN 13 : 9780743248020

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2004

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

They were just like the beaches at Normandy, Slapton Sands. That's why they trained them there, an army of invasion, secluded in sleepy south Devon. But fifteen hundred soldiers perished at Slapton Sands, and no one seems to want to know why.
Thirty-two years later, in the long, hot summer of '76, Alice Bourne, an American student arrives, determined to discover the true story of their tragic sacrifice.
But her presence is unwelcome. Disturbing incidents occur. Alice believes she's being haunted, targeted by a malevolent individual with his own dark reasons for preventing her from finding out what really happened.
A poignant love story and a chilling tale of suspense, Francis Cottam's mesmerising new novel peels back the layers of both past and present to examine the harrowing detail of a tragic wartime mystery.
'Gripping and enjoyable' Sunday Telegraph
Pocket Books
Fiction
£6.99

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It's 1976 and American student Alice Bourne has come to Slapton Sands on the south Devon coast to research an event that took place 32 years earlier, a catastrophe which claimed the lives of almost 1,500 American marines. The truth about exactly what happened that fateful day in April 1944 has never been revealed. Herself a stranger in a strange land, only just becoming used to the English and their peculiar ways, Alice is determined to find out more about these farm boys from Iowa and Nebraska who came to an alien land prepared to fight Nazism, determined that the true story of their sacrifice should finally be told.
But someone is making Alice feel increasingly unwelcome. Minor disturbing incidents escalate until Alice believes she's being haunted: targeted by a malevolent individual with his own dark reasons for preventing her from finding out what really happened at Slapton Sands.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743248023
• ISBN 13: 9780743248020
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320