The Power of the Sword book by Wilbur Smith
By Wilbur SmithThe Power of the Sword book by Wilbur Smith
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. Published By Pan Publishing on 1987
Book details
- Paperback
- 871 pages
- English
- 0330297643
- 9780330297646
About Wilbur Smith
wilbur smith was born in central africa in 1933. he became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of when the lion feeds, and has sinc Read More about Wilbur Smith
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