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Product Identifiers
PublisherTrafford Publishing
ISBN-101412099862
ISBN-139781412099868
eBay Product ID (ePID)60751939
Product Key Features
Book TitleLong Shadows of War
Publication Year2006
TopicWar & Military
Number of Pages376 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorEugene Grecu
FormatTrade Paperback
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Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisThis work of fiction, inspired by the effects of WWII and its aftermath on the people of Romania, develops as two stories in alternate chapters, which as the plots evolve gradually fuse. In one of the stories, George a lieutenant in the Romanian Army fighting on the eastern front in 1942 is trapped behind enemy lines; out of necessity he joins a Ukrainian Nationalist partisan group, and together they match wits with the ruthless NKVD. Returning home in 1945, George joins the Romanian resistance movement against the Soviet occupation and the emerging Communist Dictatorship imposed by the occupiers. Relentlessly pursued by the State Security agents, he is forced to flee his country. In the U.S.A, he continues his struggle against Communism and his old archenemy, Col. Vlasov now a high-ranking KGB agent. The protagonist of the second story is Dan George's unsuspecting son a young Romanian physician compelled by circumstances to defect to the West. The complex drama of defection is brought to the fore. Along the way he encounters challenges and dangers, love and tragedy. As the two stories converge, the father and son are gradually brought closer together in the U.S.A., on the background of the intensified Cold War. In a heart-breaking, dramatic finale, the unfulfilled reunion of the two protagonists is mitigated by wisdom and acceptance, and by the ultimate triumph of the human spirit., A gripping tale of survival behind enemy lines in WWII, of anticommunist resistance in post-war Romania, of shattered lives and defection, of love and loss, and of triumph of the human spirit.
