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Inspired by history, the story of a German paratrooper, Ulrich, who fights in World War II, Indochina, and Algeria. The text has extensive links to detailed historical and geographical notes. In 1967, a torso washes up on banks of Mississippi. Scene shifts to 1950, airborne operation in Indochina. As he heads into battle again, the veteran paratrooper, Ulrich, recollects. In Hannover 1940, he celebrates Christmas with his medical student girlfriend, Penelope. Clytemnestra, the disloyal wife of his mentor, Agemund, sings arias. Cassandra, the daughter of the Nazi gauleiter, Zigethius, gives Ulrich a Roman Ring. Zigethius antagonises Weis, an Algerian Jew. Fearful, Weis escapes to Indochina. There, he prospers laundering drug money through his tea and rubber estates. In 1941, Ulrich and Agemund parachute onto Crete for Operation Mercury. Ulrich fights in Sicily, Russia, and Normandy. In 1944, Zigethius murders Agemund, involved with the Valkyrie conspiracy. That year, Ulrich is captured and imprisoned in America. Clytemnestra dies in an Allied air raid. Her lover, Zigethius, however, escapes Allied justice because of his involvement with the secret rocket program. After the War, Ulrich joins the Foreign Legion and is shipped to Indochina. He fights in many battles with the 1st Foreign Legion Parachute Battalion, including on Colonial Route 4 where the unit is annihilated. A female helicopter pilot, Ishtari, rescues the wounded and, briefly, becomes Ulrich's lover. In Laos, Cassandra - now an anthropologist - rescues Ulrich from vengeful communists. In 1954, Ulrich himself saves Weis' daughter, Circe, but then parachutes into the entrenched jungle camp of Dien Bien Phu. He is wounded but Ishtari evacuates him. In 1955, Ulrich disembarks in Algeria but, after his Arab friend is guillotined, becomes disenchanted and leaves the Army. He becomes a journalist and covers the independence struggle in Cameroon. Meanwhile, Circe joins the OAS but blows herself up in a bungled terrorist attack. In 1965, Ulrich is sent back to Vietnam to report on La Drang and Long Tan battles. For a while Ishtari ferries wounded GIs to Penelope - now a trauma surgeon - but the pilot is shot down. Cassandra works with the hilltribes. She inadvertently reveals the location of her father, Zigethius, to Ulrich who hunts down his enemy.
Título : Pia Vindex: War and Decolonisation - Crete, Indochina, Algeria, Cameroon
EAN : 9781068344701
Editorial : Pia Vindex Ltd
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