The Partisan Heart
β Scribed by Gordon Kerr
- Publisher
- Muswell Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The Italian Alps,1944. The Resistance is fighting a bitter battle against German forces on the treacherous mountains of the Valtellina. Eighteen-year-old Sandro Bellini falls in love with the wife of his Commander. No good can come of it.
London,1999. Michael Keats is mourning the death of his wife, killed in a hit and run accident in Northern Italy. His discovery that she had been having an affair devastates him and he sets out to find the identity of her lover.
That journey leads him to the villages of the Valtellina, where he becomes embroiled in a crime of treachery and revenge. The brutal repercussions of the war are still reverberating, and as Michael uncovers the truth of his wife's affair, he reveals five decades of duplicity and deception.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
In wartime, people are either friends of enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die. **PARTISANS** When Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction. **PARTISANS** Three Yugoslavs set out from Rome to relay the German battle plan -
La acciΓ³n se desarrolla durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el norte de Italia y en Yugoslavia. Los partisanos, guerrilleros realistas, luchan tenazmente contra la ocupaciΓ³n alemana, combatiendo contra la fuerza y los mΓΊltiples medios del enemigo y contra la disciplina cada vez menor de los italia
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, *The Parisian* illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.