By Erich Maria Remarque
From the cherished writer of All Quiet at the Western entrance, Flotsam is a terrifying portrait of Europe because the Nazi shadow falls over the continent.
Political dissidents, Jews, scientific scholars, petty criminals: one of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people touring the unpaved roads of Europe, there are Steiner and Kern. either have aggravated officers for outstaying their two-week sojourn in Czechoslovakia. they usually needs to go away. no longer that both has anyplace to move. now not in 1939. but if a guy is led through a protect to the border of 1 kingdom, he needs to try out one other. till he's escorted from that one too.
dwelling hand-to-mouth, promoting shoelaces and safeguard pins for a few cents, Steiner and Kern locate that, remarkably, there are nonetheless pleasures available. Paris, for one; love, for one more. For amid the heartless cruelty and cold-blooded legislation of the Nazi nation, there's nonetheless humanity and kindness. and there's incomparable pleasure in falling in love, surviving, and telling your tale so it's by no means forgotten.
“The international has an exceptional author in Erich Maria Remarque. he's a craftsman of surely first rank, a guy who can bend language to his will. no matter if he writes of guys or of inanimate nature, his contact is delicate, company, and sure.”—The big apple occasions ebook Review
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On the way he saw Sergeant Robert (Bob) Bentley (City of London Police – CoLP) and told him what was going on. Sergeant Bob then told him to go to the Bishopsgate City of London Police Station. He arrived just after 11 pm. Walter Piper told Sergeant Arthur Bryant (CoLP) that there was heavy drilling, sawing and hammering going on in the Exchange Buildings in a little cul-de-sac street on the right-hand side of Houndsditch and that he had told Sergeant Bob, who was now heading down there. George Gardstein, Fritz Svaars, Jacob Peters and Nina Vassilleva were inside the property next to the Harris jewellery store.
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Mr Quinn read Russian, but spoke little of it. Nikolai lightweight, but also a wild character who would rather die than be caught. spoke a little English but did not write it, so they communicated in Fritz Svaars was also gentle and sentimental and had a fondness for French. Mr Quinn successfully inducted Nikolai Tomacoff into spy dressing up and acting. Occasionally he practised the mandolin with work via their shared third language. his tutor Nikolai Tomacoff at the Anarchist Club in preparation for the Patrick Quinn was an Irishman with twinkling eyes and a neat little upcoming Christmas play.