Power

Power of the Sword

By - Smith, Wilbur A.
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Little, Brown, Boston, ©1986
ISBN 10 - 0330297643
ISBN 13 - 9780330297646
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Courtney family (Fictitious characters) Fiction
Shelf No - 7
Call Number - 823 SMI
Physical Description - 618 pages ; 25 cm
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Across the goldfields of South Africa to the 1930s Olympics in Berlin, this is an astonishing novel of adventure from one of the world's most celebrated novelists They were half-brothers, raised in different worlds in the same country, and destined to be lifelong enemies. Manfred De La Ray and Shasa Courtney, sons of Centaine de Thiry, were blood enemies from their very first boyhood encounter. Caught up in the tumult of South Africa's history through two decades, they found themselves adversaries in an age-old war of savagery to seize the sword of power in their land. Sweeping from the teeming goldfields of the highland to the secret citadels of Afrikaaner power, from the clamouring stadiums of Hitler's Berlin Olympics to the raging war over Abyssinia.

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