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Title: The Year Is '42

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Paperback, 2006

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Language:        English

Size
Length:        207 Pages
Weight:        0.8 Pounds
Height:         7.8 Inches
Width:          6.3 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 Inches



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In this intimate novel about ordinary lives lived under the extraordinary circumstances of war, we meet Karl Bazinger, a sophisticated Wehrmacht officer who is living the high life in Occupied Paris. With his French girlfriend, his glamorous dinner companions (Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau, and a suspected spy for the British), and his open disdain for the Nazis, Karl begins to attract the attention of the SS. He is drawn into further trouble when he receives a suspicious visit from Hans, his best friend from Saxony, who may be involved in resistance activities. To lower his profile, Karl requests a transfer to the Eastern Front and sets off on a journey into a very different experience of war.

As a terrible fate for Hans is sealed, Karl is posted to Kiev, where he discovers the extent of the Nazi atrocities in the region and begins to suffer from a mysterious nervous ailment. In the novel’s final twist, the ministrations of an “enemy” doctor—a beautiful, stoic Russian woman with her own painful history—will heal Karl and offer him a vital connection to hope and goodness in the midst of hell.

The Year Is ’42 communicates the enormity of war with immediacy and intelligence. Urbane, subtle, and elegiac, this small masterpiece captures the myriad gradations of moral position that war demands of those who serve, those who resist, and those who stand and wait.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Year Is '42 and it was written by John Berger, Lisa Appignanesi, Nella Bielski. This edition of The Year Is '42 is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is November 2004 and it has a suggested retail price of $18.95. There are 207 pages in the book and it was published by Random House Inc. The 10 digit ISBN is 0375422862 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780375422867. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.