Books by Olivia Manning
The Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
The Balkan Trilogy (all three books are bound together in the edition pictured, published by NYRB Classics) follows the fortunes of an English couple, Guy and Harriet Pringle. Newly married, they make their way to Romania by train—Guy has a teaching job in Bucharest—just as the Nazis are invading Poland. This is one of the great novels of World War II, and based on Manning's own experiences.
Interviews where books by Olivia Manning were recommended
The best books on Spies, Lies and Foreign Correspondents, recommended by Richard Beeston
From a biography of the Soviet Union’s most successful spy to an isolated German general in Tanzania in World War I, from a brilliant novel of World War II to what it was like in Moscow during Stalin’s show trials, British journalist Richard Beeston (1962-2013) recommends a range of books that resonated with him as he reported from troublespots around the globe.
