A Broken Land [electronic resource]
Ludlow, Jack2011
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1936. Soldier of fortune Cal Jardine travels to Barcelona to help with the athletic games rivalling the Berlin Olympics. But as the first shots of civil war ring out, friendship, love and political conviction converge to persuade Jardine to once again embroil himself in a foreign war. Discovering that the British athletes attending the games are keen to enlist for the fight, Jardine agrees to train them into a professional force. With old army comrade Vince Castellano and his beautiful interpreter Florencia Gardiola by his side, Jardine leads the athletes through the street battles of Barcelona and onto the fighting in the Catalan countryside but when murderous betrayal blights his previous fortune, Jardine will go to any lengths to seek suitable revenge...
Main title:
A Broken Land [electronic resource] / Jack Ludlow
Author:
Ludlow, Jack, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Allison & Busby, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Roads to War
Biography/History:
Jack Ludlow is the pen-name of writer David Donachie, who was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in the Roman Republic as well as the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which he drew on for the many historical adventure novels he has set in that period. David lives in Deal with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.
ISBN:
9780749040765
Language:
English
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BRN:
2303333