Long Road to Baghdad
- 502 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
An epic novel of an incendiary love that threatened to set the desert alight as war raged between the British and Ottoman Empires.
Esta serie sumerge a los lectores en los tumultuosos inicios del siglo XX, una época de imperios en conflicto y cambiantes poderes globales. En su corazón se encuentran intensas relaciones humanas, en particular una apasionada historia de amor que se enciende sobre el telón de fondo de la guerra y la agitación política. Es un viaje épico donde los destinos personales se entrelazan con grandes eventos históricos, explorando cómo las vidas individuales son moldeadas por las llamas del conflicto y el largo camino hacia un cambio profundo.
An epic novel of an incendiary love that threatened to set the desert alight as war raged between the British and Ottoman Empires.
December 1915. Following heavy casualties, General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Amara, Iraq. His orders - to engage as many Turkish troops as possible in a siege situation. A relief force is hastily assembled, among them Charles Reid, Tom Mason, and Michael Downe, for each of whom the advance is personal.
The third novel in the Long Road to Baghdad series, Scorpion Sunset is an epic, moving account of World War One in Mesopotamia, by one of Wales' most acclaimed historical novelists.