About the book: 2007 / British writer, winner of many European literary awards Louis de Bernieres wrote "War and Peace" of the 20th century, the greatest saga about love and war. The history of the Greek-Armenian-Turkish genocide in Asia Minor, the life story of the provincial Turkish town of Eskibahce, overwhelmed by the First World War and the Turkish War of Independence, the story of love, crippled by Time, is in the novel “Wingless Birds”. An island lost in the Mediterranean Sea; a people caught up in the whirlwind of World War II; people who carried passion through the decades - in the novel “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” a sequel to “Wingless Birds.” Two brilliant love stories, two grandiose war epics, two stories about what war does to people.