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Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy
Fortunes of War The Levant Trilogy
Author: Olivia Manning
Fortunes of War is the collective name given to six novels by Olivia Manning, consisting of The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. The Balkan Trilogy comprises the books The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City and Friends And Heroes. The Levant Trilogy comprises the books T...  more », The Battle Lost And Won and The Sum Of Things.

The novels describe the experiences of a young married couple, Harriet and Guy Pringle, early in World War II. A lecturer and passionate Communist, Guy is attached to a British Council educational establishment in Bucharest (Romania) when war breaks out, and the couple are forced to leave the country, passing through Athens and Palestine and ending up in Cairo, Egypt. Harriet is persuaded to return home by ship, but changes her mind at the last minute and goes to Damascus with friends.

The cycle also chronicles the pre-war and wartime experiences of the surrounding group of English expatriates who also find themselves on the move, and the changes in Romanian society as the corrupt regime of King Carol II tries unsuccessfully to keep Romania out of the war.
ISBN-13: 9780140109955
ISBN-10: 0140109951
Publication Date: 1/1/1988
Pages: 570
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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