The Great FireThe Great Fire
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Book, 2003
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Current format, Book, 2003, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsThe year is 1947. In the ashes of the Second World War, Aldred Leith, an acclaimed hero of the conflict, has spent two years in China at work on an account of world-transforming change there. Peter Exley, another veteran--whose life Leith once saved--and an art historian by training, is prosecuting war crimes committed by the Japanese. The men, otherwise haunted by loneliness, have maintained a long-distance friendship. Now, with their youth behind them and their world in ruins, both must invent the future and retrieve a private humanity. Arriving in Occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima, Leith meets young Helen Driscoll, whose brother is doomed by a rare degenerative disease, and soon finds himself struggling with his attraction to this girl whose feelings are as intense as his own.
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