
Cold Victory
A Novel
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Bronson Pinchot
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Karl Marlantes
From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test.
Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country’s military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly—but secret—cross-country wilderness race.
This is another masterful novel from the author of the modern classic Matterhorn, whose “breakneck writing style is both passionate and haunting” (W. E. B. Griffin). Layered with fast-paced action, historical detail, and a keen eye for the way totalitarianism and loss of truth and privacy threatens love and friendship, Cold Victory is a triumph.
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The author does a characteristically excellent job communicating the pervading despair and bitterness of the Finnish population as they attempt to meet the demands forced on them with the signing of the Moscow Accords which established and armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union.
The story largely focuses on the relationship that forms between a somewhat naïve Oklahoman housewife to a member of the US legation and a counterpart from the Soviet legation.
The story seeks, in some part, to communicate the juxtaposition between two wives coming from to very different nations, family backgrounds and childhoods, but who share a mutual love for their war weary husbands and desire to help the children of a local orphanage in Helsinki.
Ultimately the story attempts to serves as a warning of the dangers of blind naïveté and good intentions in an environment where bitterness and resentment are as cold and the native winter; as well, lamenting the replacement of honor and mutual respect among warriors with politicians, spies and paranoia.
Though the books ending feels somewhat rushed it’s honest to the authors narrative.
I recommend this book.
Thank you for another excellent book Mr. Marlantes.
Master of bittersweet story telling
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The character development
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Very Disappointing
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How naive can you be?
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Great author
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That woman!!!
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I haven’t read any of the author’s other books but they have good reviews.
The naivety of Louise was exasperating and I almost quit the book half way through. I wish I had as it was one of the most depressing books I have listened to or read in a long time.
Depressing Book
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A good lesson in the gift we have in a free society.
Karl draws us into the emotions of deep loss and disturbs our sense of safety.
Worth the listen
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Well done
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Great Story
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