By Danielle Steel
In a wealthy historic novel of kin and international battle II, no 1 New York Times bestselling writer Danielle metal unfurls a strong saga that spans generations and continents. this can be a tale of braveness, friendship, and destiny as households face the demanding situations of conflict . . . and the remarkable stallion that might hyperlink them forever.
PEGASUS
Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von Hemmerle, titled participants of the German aristocracy, were most sensible neighbors on account that formative years. either widowers, they're elevating their children—Nick’s energetic boys and Alex’s loved teenage daughter—in peace and comfort at the substantial Bavarian estates that experience belonged to their households for generations. whereas Nick indulges in additional glamorous targets, Alex devotes himself to breeding the well known white Lipizzaner horses that enthrall audiences all through Europe with their skill to bounce and spin on command, majestic creatures whose bloodlines are infrequent and important. however it is Nicolas’s bloodline that alterations every thing, while his father gets a caution from a high-ranking touch contained in the Wehrmacht. A mystery from the prior has left the relations liable to the emerging tide of Nazism: Nick’s mom, whom he by no means knew, was once of Jewish descent.
Suddenly Nicolas needs to flee Germany, wrenching his sons clear of the one domestic they've got identified, crusing around the Atlantic for a brand new existence in the US. Their survival is determined by a important reward from Alex, their purely stake for the longer term: 8 purebred horses, of them lovely Lipizzaners. In Florida, the place Nicolas joins the Ringling Brothers Circus, he turns into Nick Bing, with Alex’s prize white stallion—now named Pegasus—the centerpiece of the show.
In this amazing booklet, Danielle metal tells the tale of a relations reinventing itself in the United States, whereas the rustic they left at the back of is engulfed in flames and insanity, and males like Alex von Hemmerle are compelled to make insufferable offerings. Alex’s daughter will locate sanctuary in England. In the US, Nick will locate love, his sons will discover a destiny, and their left-behind international will ultimately locate them. a unique of desire and sacrifice, of tragedy, problem, and rebirth, Pegasus is an excellent relations chronicle that unfolds throughout part a century—a masterwork from certainly one of our such a lot cherished writers.
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The British, threatened like Russia in both East Asia and Europe, concentrated their attention, like the Russians and later the Americans, on what was perceived as the more dangerous threat in Europe. While beginning to rearm, their belief that a war anywhere would eventually involve them led the London government to try for local peaceful solu tions of specific issues or, as an alternative procedure capable of simul taneous implementation, to secure a general settlement with Germany in which economic and colonial concessions would be exchanged for German acceptance of the essentials of the status quo in Central and Eastern Europe.
From one war to another ij the last war, civilians can be castigated with equal justice for trying to avoid it. In both cases, there is a measure of value in circumspectly drawn lessons of limited application, but the conceptualization is inher ently faulty even if understandable. One can no more avoid a war one has already been in than one can refight a conflict that is over; but as the recurrent discussion in the United States of not getting into another Vietnam should remind one, these obvious truths rarely prevent anyone from trying.
This, of course, is nonsense. All the reparations were paid: the devastated towns were rebuilt, the orchards replanted, the mines pumped out and all the pensions to survivors were paid (with some still being paid). The bill was simply shifted to other shoulders, primarily the very countries that had seen their economies suffer most from the war. This shifting of the burden of repair costs from the less damaged German economy to the more damaged economies of others thus served to redouble rather than off-set the impact of the war itself.
