R275.00
Power of the Sword is a rich and thrilling adventure, a magnificent feat of storytelling, that sweeps the reader from the deserts, mountains, and cities of Africa to the heartland of Nazi Germany, and from the turmoil of the Depression years into the white heat of war.
A novel of life-long love and hate, of courage and revenge, Power of the Sword is the story of the two half-brothers, the sons of Centaine de Thiry Courtney from The Burning Shore, caught up in the tumult of their nation’s history through almost two decades. Blood enemies from their first boyhood encounter. Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney find themselves adversaries in a war of age, old savagery to seize the sword of power in their land.
Moving from the teeming gold fields of the Highveld to the secret citadels of Afrikaner power, from the ringing Olympic stadia of Berlin in 1936 to the raging skies over the Abyssinian hills, Power of the Sword is epic fiction rooted in documentary fact, a majestic entertainment by a master of his craft.
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Authored by Wilbur Smith and published by Heinemann of London in 1986. Hard cover bound this First Edition copy is in Very Good condition, covered in plastic, with a Very Good dust jacket. The size of the book is 240x158x45mm, with 618 pages, excluding the listing for the author’s previous books.
Slight glue residue where price sticker has been removed; spine slightly faded. Book has all edges browned and pages browning from margins inwards, as is usual.
