Description
As the victorious Eighth Army sweeps through North Africa in1942, fellow soldiers Robert Upton and Daniel Levin forge an unlikelyfriendship, one that overcomes rank and politics, class and creed. It is thekind of bond only war can build, an affinity between a member of the upperclass and a Jewish communist who opposes everything his comrade represents. Fourteen years later, that relationship is tested. When thetwo men meet again, Robert is a Foreign Office official, unhappily married to abeautiful artist and with a scheming aristocratic mistress; Daniel is ajournalist on the Daily Worker, his faith in communism fraying by theday. Meanwhile, the world teeters on the brink of yet another war. PresidentNasser is asserting his claim over the Suez Canal and the Soviet Union ispreparing to invade Hungary. The peace they fought for is shattering and so, itturns out, is everything they thought they knew about each other. At once epic and intimate, Levin’s War is a novelabout love, disillusionment and betrayal, set against the backdrop of thecrumbling British Empire. Spanning continents and decades, it asks whatenduring values – both personal and political – truly cost and whether they canwithstand the tumultuous tide of twentieth-century history.