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The Village. A Novel of Wartime Crete

The Village. A Novel of Wartime Crete

Author(s): Philip Duke

Location(s): Crete

Genre(s): Historical

Era(s): 1940s

A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe.
A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life in the Cretan Resistance…A naive English soldier unwillingly finds the warrior in himself…And a fanatical German paratrooper is forced to question everything he thought he believed in.
The lives of four ordinary people are irrevocably entwined and their destinies changed forever as each of them confronts the horrors of war and its echoes down the decades.

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