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The girl who fell from the sky

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status, and fluent French, will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause.

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  • "The girl who fell from the sky"@it
  • "Girl who fell from the sky"@pl

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  • "Paris 1943: Eine mutige junge Frau gerät zwischen die Fronten des Krieges - und fi ndet sich zwischen zwei Männern wieder Marian Sutro ist kein Mädchen wie die anderen. Soeben aus der Schule ins Leben entlassen, kauert die neunzehnjährige Londonerin nun vor der geöffneten Tür eines Flugzeugs der Royal Airforce, unter ihr das besetzte Frankreich, bereit, mit dem Fallschirm ins Ungewisse zu springen. Sie soll ihre Jugendliebe Clément aufsuchen, der in Paris für die Nazis als Wissenschaftler arbeitet. Wird sie ihre Aufgabe erfüllen? Wird sie Clément finden - und was wird dann mit Benoît, ihrem neuen Liebhaber? Ein packender Roman über eine starke junge Frau, die Mut in gefährlichen Zeiten beweist, und eine "Casablanca"-gleiche Liebesgeschichte vor der Kulisse des historischen Paris. Simon Mawer wurde 1948 als Kind eines Soldaten der Royal Airforce in England geboren und wuchs u.a. in Zypern und Malta auf. Sein Werk umfasst bisher acht Romane, viele davon internationale Bestseller; zwei seiner Romane wurden für den wichtigsten Literaturpreis der englischsprachigen Welt, den Booker-Preis, nominiert. Mawer lebt heute in Italien."
  • "Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status, and fluent French, will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause."
  • "Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status, and fluent French, will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause."@en
  • "Marian is your everyday girl living through WWII. Only just 18 years old, she's doing her bit by working for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) when a secret meeting with a 'Mr Potter' from the Inter Services Research Bureau, which could be anything, forces her to make a choice. Keep it simple and continue as always or disappear for a little while into training. I don't think it gives it away to say she chooses the more exciting route, though she quickly realises it is the more dangerous one as well. With her fluent French and childhood in Geneva she has the perfect background for a spy in the terrible times of the French Occupation."
  • "Szkocja 1941. Mariane poznaje smak namiętności i wyrusza z tajną misją. Francja 1942. Alice skacze ze spadochronem, przemycając broń na teren wroga. Paryż 1943. Anne-Marie naciska spust i po raz pierwszy zabija Niemca. Mariane, Alice i Anne-Marie to jedna osoba. Kobieta szpieg, która nie cofnie się przed niczym - ani na wojnie, ani w miłości. Niebezpieczne gry wojenne, zakazane uczucie, obezwładniające pożądanie. W świecie ogarniętym wojną tajna agentka przechodzi szkołę miłości, życia i przetrwania. Mistrzowsko skonstruowana historia inspirowana losami kobiet z elitarnego brytyjskiego oddziału SOE."
  • "A diplomat's daughter, Marian Sutro is an outsider - half French, half British. When she is recruited by SOE, her hybrid status and fluent French will be of service for her to go undercover in wartime France on a dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France - officially as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris, where she must find Clement Pelletier, a family friend, once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist, Pelletier is engaged in the race for a new and terrifying weapon and of urgent significance to her superiors. Marian struggles towards this reunion, understanding that war changes everything, and neither love nor fatherland may be trusted."
  • "Vanwege haar Franse afkomst wordt een Britse vrouw in 1941 opgeleid als geheim agent om in Frankrijk het verzet te helpen door speciale taken uit te voeren."
  • "Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent French - will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France, her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris, where she must seek out family friend Clement Pelletier, once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new and terrifying weapon, he is of urgent significance to her superiors. As she struggles through the strange, lethal landscape of the Occupation towards this reunion, what completes her training is the understanding that war changes everything, and neither love nor fatherland may be trusted. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is both a gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love."

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  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl

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  • "The girl who fell from the sky"@en
  • "The girl who fell from the sky"
  • "Het meisje dat uit de lucht kwam vallen"
  • "The Girl Who Fell From The Sky"@en
  • "La fille qui tombe du ciel"
  • "Die Frau, die vom Himmel fiel Roman"
  • "Die Frau, die vom Himmel fiel : Roman"
  • "La ragazza che cadde dal cielo"@it
  • "La ragazza che cadde dal cielo"
  • "Dívka, která spadla z nebe"
  • "Meisje dat uit de lucht kwam vallen"
  • "Kobieta, która spadła z nieba"
  • "Kobieta, która spadła z nieba"@pl

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