| The Polish Officer Contributor(s): Furst, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375758275 ISBN-13: 9780375758270 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack by British bombers, de Milja fights in the war of the shadows in a world without rules, a world of danger, treachery, and betrayal. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001041913 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.2" W x 8.04" (0.49 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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| Publisher Description: September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack by British bombers, de Milja fights in the war of the shadows in a world without rules, a world of danger, treachery, and betrayal." |