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A young Nigerian man leaves his home in Lagos to travel across the desert to Europe, in company with people smugglers and fellow migrants.
Set mainly in 1999/2000, Sirocco Express tells of a young Nigerian student’s experiences on a journey from Lagos to London. But Adebayo is no backpacker on a gap year jaunt. He pays people smugglers to take him across the Sahara, and soon becomes immersed in a hidden world of illicit travel and savage exploitation.
Adebayo’s determination to retain his humanity, in spite of his increasing horror at the callousness of the traffickers, soon brings him into conflict with them. Although his plight may be unfamiliar to many in the Western world, his quixotic stance in the fac | |  | | The Whole Rotten Edifice
During the desperate defence of Moscow in 1941/2, a father and daughter fight for the Red Army: he as a general, she as a sniper.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: x-small; ">font color="#274E13">span style="font-size: small; ">span style="font-weight: normal; ">During the desperate defence of Moscow in 1941/2, a father and daughter fight for the Red Army: he as a general, she as a sniper. After Moscow escapes from imminent disaster, both become involved in a series of battles to the west of the city. The famous Russian victories at Stalingrad, Kursk and Leningrad have overshadowed the offensives around Rzhev and |
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