# The Violent Century

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- Book: [The Violent Century](https://www.bookquiver.com/lavie-tidhar/the-violent-century) ([The Violent Century.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lavie-tidhar/the-violent-century.md))
- Authors: [Lavie Tidhar](https://www.bookquiver.com/lavie-tidhar)
- Publisher: hodder_scape_paren_imprint_for_domain
- ISBN: 978-14-4476-289-1
- Published: 2014-06-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there must always be an account to settle... and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields - Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism to answer one last, impossible question: What makes a hero?