The Plundered City. Balkan Trilogy. Volume 2

Bucharest, 1940. The city is frozen in anticipation of invasion. Guy and Harriet Pringle increasingly feel the threat to their position. Harriet seeks safety, while Guy views the events idealistically, thereby only amplifying her fear. When the Germans enter Bucharest,... the couple is forced to separate; Harriet departs for Athens in a desperate attempt to find a reliable refuge.
 
In the second novel of the «Balkan Trilogy», her rediscovered masterpiece, Olivia Manning presents us with a dramatic and colorful portrait of a city engulfed in the storm of war, and a young couple trying to preserve their marriage under the onslaught of calamities.