The final volume of Kate Mosse's Languedoc Trilogy is nigh on 1,000 pages long, a suitably millennial length for her trademark long view of French history. Jane Housham If you choose this as your holiday reading, make sure you're having more than a long weekend away. The unwavering sincerity of tone, maintained over hundreds of pages, can occasionally start to feel like a grown-up school story, with lashings of berets and bicycles, yet it's probably this very quality that accounts for Mosse's huge commercial success. She is impressively knowledgeable about her adopted corner of France, and you can't fault her evocation of the "Frenchness" we Anglo-Saxons love. Mosse plunges into the dark and bloody years of Vichy France, subjecting her largely female cast to terrible pain and anguish. The focus is the second world war, but the story of resistance fighters in Carcasonne is characteristically interwoven with that of a fourth-century monk bearing a Gnostic text, while the wizard-like figure of Audric Baillard links all three volumes. Most of our images are sourced automatically, so the book cover shown might be different to the edition we have in stock.If you choose this as your holiday reading, make sure you're having more than a long weekend away. This is a used book in good condition, meaning that it shows signs of wear but has no major defects. Combining the rugged action of LABYRINTH with the haunting mystery of SEPULCHRE, CITADEL is a story of daring and courage, of lives risked for beliefs and of astonishing secrets buried in time. And as a cell of Maquis resistance fighters, codenamed CITADEL, fight for everything they hold dear, their struggle will reveal an older, darker combat being fought in the shadows. While war blazed in the trenches at the front, back at home a different battle is waged, full of clandestine bravery, treachery and secrets. Set during World War II in the far south of France, CITADEL is a powerful, action-packed mystery that reveals the secrets of the resistance under Nazi occupation. From the No.1 internationally bestselling author comes the third heart-stopping adventure exploring the incredible history, legends and hidden secrets of Carcassonne and the Languedoc.
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