Purple Hearts - Майкл Грант The Front Lines series

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      First published in Great Britain in 2018

      by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont UK Limited

      The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN

      Published by arrangement with HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, USA

      Text copyright © 2018 by Michael Grant

      First e-book edition 2018

      ISBN 978 1 4052 7388 6

      Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1656 7

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      A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

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      To all the real soldier girls.

       “Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world!”

       —Adolf Hitler

       “And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I’d shoot a snake!”

       —General George S. Patton

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

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       LETTERS SENT

       PART TWO: PARIS

       19

       PART THREE: HÜRTGEN FOREST

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       PART FOUR: THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

       LETTERS SENT

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       PART FIVE: THE CAMPS

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       PART SIX: VICTORY

       LETTERS SENT

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       INTERSTITIAL

       PART SEVEN: AFTER

       34

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       OBITUARIES

       EPILOGUE

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       IMAGE LIST

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       Back series promotional page

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       1944.

       World War II has raged in Europe for five long years, but the tide has turned decisively in favor of the Allies. France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, Greece, the western part of the Soviet Union and North Africa have all been occupied at one time, but now the edges of the Nazi Reich are being rolled up.

       In Italy, Hitler’s clownish Fascist henchman, Benito Mussolini, has been overthrown. Pro-Nazi governments in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and parts of Yugoslavia are looking for ways to make peace with the Allies. The Nazis are out of North Africa and southern Italy.

       The Soviet Union is ruled by the paranoid monster Joseph Stalin. Having once made a treacherous peace with Hitler allowing the Soviets to stab Finland and Poland in the back, Stalin then found himself betrayed in turn by Hitler. Ignoring a peace agreement between them, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, inflicting unspeakable brutality on Poles, Belorussians, Ukrainians, Russians and, of course, above all, the Jews.

       But the Soviet Union has proven to be too big a meal

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