Name: Cold Victory
SKU: 55837985
Price: 24.23 EUR
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Author: Karl Marlantes

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Physical Book

Author

Karl Marlantes

Publisher

Grove Press

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780802161420

Cold Victory

Karl Marlantes (Author) · Grove Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Cold Victory "

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate testHelsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly - but secret - cross-country wilderness race.Louise is delighted, but Natalya is worried. Stalin and Beria's secret police rule with unforgiving brutality. If news of the race gets out and Mikhail loses, Natalya knows it would mean his death, her imprisonment, and the loss of her two children. Meanwhile, Louise, who is childless, uses the race as an opportunity to raise money for a local orphanage, naïve to the danger it will bring to Natalya and her family. Too late to stop Louise's scheme, a horrified Natalya watches as news of the race spreads across the globe as newspapers and politicians spin it as a symbolic battle: freedom versus communism. Desperate to undo her mistake, Louise must reach Arnie to tell him to throw the race and save Mikhail - but how? The two racers are in a world of their own, unreachable in Finland's arctic wilderness.This is another masterful novel from the author of the modern classic Matterhorn, whose "breakneck writing style is both passionate and haunting" (W. E. B. Griffin). Layered with fast-paced action, historical detail, and a keen eye for the way totalitarianism and loss of truth and privacy threatens love and friendship, Cold Victory is a triumph.

Karl Marlantes

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Karl Marlantes (Astoria, Oregon, 1944) is an American writer and war veteran, known for his deep exploration of the war experience and its consequences. A Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he served as a Marine infantry lieutenant in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten Air Medals. His combat experience and subsequent struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder have significantly influenced his literary work.

His first novel, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010), based on his experiences, was critically acclaimed and received awards such as the Colby Award and the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. He followed with What It Is Like to Go to War (2011), a non-fiction work about the experience of combat and reintegration into civilian life, and Deep River (2019), a family saga about Finnish immigrants in the northwest United States. In 2024 he published Cold Victory, set during the Cold War. His writing is characterized by an intense and reflective narrative on war, identity, and human resilience.

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