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Acts of Love and War audiobook
- By: Maggie Brookes
- Narrator: Avita Jay
- Category: Contemporary Women, Fiction
- Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Canada
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Acts of Love and War Audiobook Summary
A remarkable story of love and sacrifice centred on three young English volunteers in the bloody Spanish Civil War, from the author of The Prisoner’s Wife.
1936. Civil war is tearing Spain apart, and the world is on the brink of chaos…
Twenty-one-year-old Lucy is frustrated with her constrained life in Hertfordshire, teaching and keeping house for her domineering father. But she is happy to be living next door to Tom and Jamie, two brothers she has known since childhood, and whom she loves equally.
But everyone’s lives are turned upside down when Tom, the younger, decides to join the Republican cause in the bloody war in Spain. His older, fervently Catholic brother Jamie soon follows–but as a reporter for the opposing forces that support General Franco in keeping Spain rigidly authoritarian, with the help of both Hitler and Mussolini.
Lucy decides the only way to ensure the brothers’ safety is to defy her father and travel to Spain herself and persuade them to come home. Yet when she sees the horrific effects of the war on the people–especially the children–she quickly joins the lifesaving work of the Quaker volunteers who have arrived from almost as many countries as have the International Brigades of fighters. Lucy knows that both brothers are in love with her; she herself is deeply torn between them.
The atrocities and casualties mount and Lucy knows that the question of which man she might spend her life with might be irrelevent, as the chances of either of them surviving diminish with every passing day.
This meticulously researched, deeply affecting novel is based on real memoirs of the Spanish Civil War. It is both a love story and a tribute to the remarkable women who fought with compassion and bravery to save the innocent victims of a war that was a foretaste of the carnage soon to come in World War II.
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Acts of Love and War Full Details
| Narrator | Avita Jay |
| Length | 11 hours 47 minutes |
| Author | Maggie Brookes |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Canada |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780735246096 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Acts of Love and War is Penguin Canada. includes the following subjects: romance books, romance novels, historical romance books, historical romance, historical fiction books, historical fiction, no pasaran, fascism, Hemingway, children, pregnancy, England, Spanish history, war novels, civil war, historical novel, orphans, love triangle, brothers, Spain, wwii, romance, ww2, world war ii, historical, world war 2, love, women's fiction, gifts for women, wwii books, alternate history, gifts for her, books historical fiction, fiction, novels, women, women gifts, fiction books, ww2 historical fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Women The BISAC Subject Code is Contemporary Women, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Acts of Love and War is Penguin Canada. The imprint is Viking. It is supplied by Penguin Canada. The ISBN-13 is 9780735246096.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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