The Dragontail Buttonhole - Couverture souple

Curtis, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1944540148 ISBN 13 : 9781944540142

Editeur : Sordelet Ink, 2016

Synopsis

A thrilling escape from Nazi-occupied Europe! Willy and Sophie Kohut own a store in Prague, selling men’s suiting fabrics imported from Britain and Italy. On March 15th 1939, the day the Nazis occupy Czechoslovakia, Willy is arrested as a British spy and tortured. After his release the dispossessed family, posing as Hungarians, pay a small-time smuggler to help them escape through Hungary and Germany. On a journey fraught with dangerous incidents, they battle through to keep their toddler son safe, fearing the moment they will be unmasked as Jewish and detained.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Curtis was born in Kosice in Eastern Slovakia. Later, as a child in England, he was enthralled by books like 'Treasure Island', 'King Solomon’s Mines', and 'The 39 Steps'. He dreamed of writing tales of adventure. As a young man, he trained at Guy’s Hospital, London, specializing in joint and back problems. But when he found that people’s lives were more interesting than inflammation, he turned to family doctoring in the English countryside and began writing about dramatic or amusing incidents in his practice. Some of his short stories were published. The years passed and he moved with his family to the University of North Carolina. As his family elders and parents passed on, he inherited their photographs and documents and started piecing together the family’s Slovak history. They had been the enthusiastic citizens of a dynamic democratic country, Czechoslovakia, until it was swallowed by Germany during the great and tragic dislocation of WWII. What they went through moved Peter to finally write an adventure story close to his heart.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sordelet Ink
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1944540148
• ISBN 13: 9781944540142
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 314
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible