While Still We Live

Spine somewhat creased, soiled, reading crease, minor edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A solid copy. ;
Crest Book t748, cover price 75c. ; 6" - 7" Tall; 444 pages; Sheila Matthews is a young Englishwoman visiting her Polish relatives in the summer of 1939 while war clouds gather over Europe. She is inexplicably reluctant to leave for home, even though strongly urged, even though everyone else rushes to flee Poland. Sheila finally realizes she cannot bear to abandon the Poles she has come to know and respect. Caught up then in a web of counter-espionage and resistance, she discovers that even her own family is not what she had always supposed.
Written while Poland was still suffering under Nazi tyranny, Helen MacInnes movingly develops what would become one of her trademark themes -- the innocent abroad, unknowingly drawn into a foreign world of terror and intrigue, who rises to the challenge and discovers the courage and spirit to fight back. She tells a tale, not often heard, of Poles who will bravely fight against all odds. Sometimes beaten, but never defeated, we can see the Polish spirit that would carry on eventually to resist the later tyranny of the Soviet Union.

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Publisher: Crest Book

Year: 1964

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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