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This is an unforgettable recreation of life in wartime, and of the tragic fate of Poland in the twentieth century: a novel about sabotage, betrayal and the terrible sadness of exile.

In 1940, during the Phoney War, a French destroyer blows up in the Firth of Clyde. The disaster is witnessed by Jackie, a young girl who, for a time, thinks she caused the explosion by running away that day from school; by her mother Helen, a spirited woman married to a dreary young officer; and by a Polish officer, whose country has just been erased from the map by Hitler and Stalin. Their lives, and the lives of many others, are changed by the death of the Fronsac.

This is a story about divided loyalties, treachery and exile; about people in flight from the destinies that seemed to be theirs before the war disrupted the world they knew.

<\/p>\n

’A wayward story told with admirable vigour and intensity’<\/i>
\u2013 The National.

’A story that conjures up memorable characters and describes vividly the wartime atmosphere … an engrossing book’<\/i>
\u2013 Greenock Telegraph.

’Ambitious and affecting’<\/i>
\u2013 Sunday Herald.


Neal Ascherson<\/b> is a journalist and writer. He reported from Asia, Africa and Central Europe for the Observer. He contributes regularly to the New York Review and the LRB. His books include Black Sea<\/i>, Games with Shadows<\/i> and The Polish August<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The Death of the Fronsac<\/b>
By Neal Ascherson
Published by Zeus Head \/ Apollo
Publication date: August 2017
ISBN 978-1786694379
Order online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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