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040			_aKenya National Library Service
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100			_aJacobsen, Roy _eAuthor
245			_aBorders / _cRoy Jacobsen and translated from the norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw.
300			_a281 pages ; _c20cm.
520			_a1942. The Eastern Front. The German 6th Army is surrounded at Stalingrad. 300,000 men are trapped in the cauldron and the F hrer will not countenance a retreat.Feldmarschall Erich von Manstein, the Wehrmacht's most gifted strategist, is charged with relieving the Sixth. For Markus Hebel, a Belgian radio operator on Manstein's staff, the fate of the cauldron is personal: his son, also a radio officer, is entrenched in the city.Manstein's rescue operation is readied - Operation Winter Storm, a lightning armoured charge across the frozen steppe - but still Hitler refuses to allow the Sixth to abandon their positions and attempt a break out. If Markus can convince his son to sabotage his equipment and free the encircled army from the F hrer's lunatic command, disaster can yet be averted.Caught between the exhilarating dash of Manstein's desperate, gallant gambit - a latter-day Charge of the Light Brigade - and the piteous suffering of the doomed 6th Army, Borders is a story of impossible choices in a theatre of total war. Family love, national identity, even military genius, count for nothing in the face of war's own almost sentient appetites.
650			_aHistorical fiction.
650			_aWorld War II _vFiction.
700			_aBartlett, Don _eTranslator
700			_aShaw, Don _eTranslator
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