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The Great Swindle (original title: Au revoir là-haut) is a 2013 novel by Pierre Lemaitre set in France in the aftermath of the First World War.
Aug 21, 2013 · 14,945 ratings1,419 reviews. The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines.
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Oct 4, 2015 · “The Great Swindle,” which won the Prix Goncourt in 2013 and has important things to say about the dark, chaotic aftermath of World War I in France, is a big, swirling tale that itself...
The Great War killed 1.4 million French soldiers and left millions more maimed in mind and body. Pierre Lemaitre imagines the lives of two “survivors” with insight and compassion. Édouard ...
Sep 6, 2016 · by Pierre Lemaitre (Author) 4.3 1,175 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, a timeless story of how war transforms lives in unexpected and often tragic ways as seen through the eyes of three World War I vets.
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The battlefields of World War I give birth to two different, but related, schemes to swindle grieving French families out of their money.
Dec 4, 2015 · In The Great Swindle, unfussily translated from the French by Frank Wynne, he makes well-judged use of an omniscient narrator to divulge the presentiments of his main characters.
