Loyalties - Softcover

Fleming, Thomas J.; Fleming, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0061090522 ISBN 13: 9780061090523

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

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Throughout Europe, people and their countries struggle against the Nazis, including the wife of a German submarine commander, an American Naval Intelligence officer, and his wife, an influential journalist. Reprint.

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Loyalties is the wrenching love story between beautiful Berthe von Hoffman, a member of the German resistance, and Jonathan Talbot, an idealistic American Navy Commander turned intelligence officer. They meet in Spain and become lovers as they try to persuade the American and the British to forego the ill-conceived policy of unconditional surrender. Their lives are caught in the crossfire of history, making Loyalties impossible to put down until the last conflict has been played out and some hope and meaning have been glimpsed.

In scenes that range from Washington, DC to Madrid to London to Berlin, readers encounter both vivid fictional characters and starkly realistic portrayals of the war's leaders. There is Jonathan's estranged wife, journalist Annie Richman, daughter of a powerful congressman; Berthe's husband, submarine commander Ernst von Hoffman, who is determined to be the model of a "hard German"; mortally ill Franklin Roosevelt, clinging to the hatred of Germany he learned in World War I; ruthless Admiral Karl Doenitz, the leader of the Ubootwaffe; and elusive Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German secret service and the guiding spirit of the resistance to Hitler.

A rich, poignant story of men and women trapped in a world of chaos, Loyalties is also a revealing look at the political machinations, anguished decision making, and conflicted personalities behind World War II. It is an ambitious, powerful work that will further Thomas Fleming's reputation as an entertaining novelist who makes history come alive.

About the Author:

Thomas Fleming's novels include The Officers' Wives, which sold more than a million copies in the United States and two million worldwide, The Spoils of War, and Time and Tide. A fellow of the Society of American Historians, he has won numerous awards for both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in New York.

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