A lily of the field

By Lawton, John

Subjects: Crime & Mystery, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Vienna (austria), fiction, Exiles, Musicians, fiction, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Fiction, historical, general, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, World War, 1939-1945, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / War & Military, Fiction, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Crime, Hungary, fiction, Women musicians, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, Nuclear physicists

Description: A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.