دانلود رمان انگلیسی “داستان آرلت” – رمانی تاریخی، قدرتمند و احساسی در مورد جنگ جهانی دوم

‘Wait!’ Arlette turned to see her friend, Francine, running up Montverre Hill with her fair hair swinging from side to side and her clogs scuffing the parched ground. Arlette had been leading a cow from the barn to the field but stopped when she heard Francine shouting. Her friend hurried across the farm entrance, scattering a cluster of chickens before stopping and leaning forwards with hands on her hips, trying to catch her breath. ‘Qu’est-ce qui se passe?’ asked Arlette. ‘C’est Pétain.’ ‘Pétain? What about him?’ Arlette knew that when their fathers talked about the French leader, usually over a glass of pastis, the conversation became heated and resulted in insults being directed towards the man. ‘He’s abandoned Paris to the Germans.’ Arlette gave a high-pitched laugh and continued to lead the beast across the lane, its huge bulk swaying and slewing as it walked. ‘Don’t be silly.’ Although they had both turned twenty earlier in the year, Francine was still occasionally liable to childish exaggeration. Francine followed. ‘It’s true.’ ‘No one gives away a city as if it were a bag of apples.’