The Citadel

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We all wear masks in our lives,” Weil said. “To see characters who embody that is always exciting.” Das, Anoushka. "Citadel: 7 Things To Know About The Spy Series". She The People . Retrieved June 3, 2021.

In Ruin, Turkey, there is a monastery build on the side of a mountain. It is called The Citadel and it is a country unto itself. No one, except the Monks, have access to the facility that contains untold ancient artifacts, including its most sacred possession, The Sacrament. Mosse is the queen of historical mystery. She understands more than most historical writers how to weave the past with the present. In fact, she's more than adept at writing two parallel tales with hundreds of years between the two. As the stories unfold, it becomes more evident how Mosse intends to connect the parallel tales. Historical information is captivatingly drawn. At the same time facts are informatively presented. There is a good balance of heart and head. The phone number is his sister who lives in New York. This is baffling because no monk can have any living relative. The inhabitants of Ruin, Turkey wake one morning to find a man on top of the mountain citadel. His arms are stretched out in what they believe is the shape of a cross but is apparently the formation of a sanctus. The man's location immediately draws attention in part because of his actions but most importantly because he is wearing a monk's habit indicating he is a member of the enigmatic residents of the mountain within. The man retains his position for a while and then just as suddenly as he appeared, he jumps off the mountain to his death. But his death does not signify an end of the mystery but rather a continuation to a centuries old fight which had been quietly seething. The initial panic that had gripped the monks within is replaced by extreme relief when the mysterious man commits suicide. But their problems are just beginning and they soon discover that though the man on the mount was one of them, he had been hiding many secrets. Also interested by the man's appearance on the mountain is a group who seek the destruction of monks.

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A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world. When she arrives she and the actions of her brother awakens a religious force that will change the religious face of this world, well the Christian one. I am definitely in love with this book and its characters ever since I read it many years ago when I was just 15. And I will never stop loving it. Hope this review inspires readers to try this amazing book. Because I haven't read Sepulchre, I can't comment on how that book fits into the trilogy, but there are references to the two previous books that lead up to Citadel. The time frame of Citadel is the 1940's while France was in the midst of Nazi occupation. This story is one of bravery as a group of women partake in the French resistance. The characters are well developed and pull the reader into their worlds easily. The novel is of interest because of its portrayal of a voluntary contribution medical association which is based (not entirely uncritically) on the Tredegar Medical Aid Society for which Cronin worked for a time in the 1920s, and which in due course became the inspiration for the National Health Service as established under Aneurin Bevan.

From the internationally bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre comes a thrilling novel, set in the South of France during World War II, that interweaves history and legend, love and conflict, passion and adventure, bringing to life brave women of the French Resistance and a secret they must protect from the Nazis. In Carcassonne, a colorful historic village nestled deep in the Pyrenees, a group of courageous and determined operatives are engaged in a lethal battle. Like their ancestors who fought to protect their land from Northern invaders seven hundred years before, these women—code-named Citadel—fight to liberate their home from the Germans. First published in 1937 and set during the interwar years 'The Citadel' shines a light on the medical establishment in Britain at the time through the eyes of a young newly qualified Scottish doctor. Andrew Manson, takes up his first clinical post as an assistant to a GP in a small Welsh mining community where disease and poverty is rife, sanitation poor and operations are performed on kitchen tables before moving as his career progresses to the fashionable, greedy world of London with its private clinics, hypochondriac patients and rich awards. Manson arrives with a bagful of enthusiasm and idealism but soon comes face to face with the realism of his chosen profession.She has to stay centered because of the burdens she carries,” she continued. “Every choice is laden by so much pressure.” Nevertheless, her spy persona is a “badass” who comes from “a place of trusting her body.” A breathtaking tale of daring and sacrifice that makes a triumphant finale to Mosse's Languedoc trilogy