A Partisans Daughter

Author : Louis de Bernieres
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368866
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Partisan's Daughter written by Louis de Bernieres and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, A Partisan’s Daughter features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who has recently moved to London. While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee. His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world – from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito’s Partisans through her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London. A Partisan’s Daughter is about the power of storytelling. It is also a beautifully wrought and unlikely love story which is both compelling and moving to read. Here is another wonderful novel from the author of the bestselling Birds Without Wings and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Author : Louis De Bernières
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846552939
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Partisan's Daughter written by Louis De Bernières and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a chance meeting, Chris, an unhappily married, middle-aged Englishman and Rosa, a young Serbian woman recently moved to London starts to tell him the story of her life. Chris is gradually drawn into her world, from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito's partisans, throught to her recent colourful and dangerous past.

Author : Linda Boroff
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595807837
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dressmaker's Daughter written by Linda Boroff and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful and spirited Daniela dreams of becoming a doctor while growing up in Yedinitz, Romania in 1940, but as a Jew, she is barred from higher education. Her mother, who is the dressmaker to a local countess, hires her a tutor, the rebellious and precocious Mihail. The two soon begin a passionate romance, unable to resist the powerful love and attraction they share. When the Nazis invade Romania, Daniela and Mihail’s lives are forever changed: Mihail escapes and joins the partisans; Daniela is captured and sent on the notorious Transnistrian Death March, where Jews are starved, murdered, and robbed. Daniela is brutally raped by Romanian soldiers, and trapped by their depravity, she watches helplessly as her people are destroyed. Daniela’s life is spared when her beauty catches the eye of a Romanian Iron Guard commander, Major Dragulescu, who forcibly takes her as his concubine and also sends her to nurse Romanian soldiers in the field hospital, where Daniela cannot help feeling pity at the suffering that surrounds her. One night Mihail appears with a troop of partisans on a mission to assassinate two key Nazis visiting the major. What happens next is both heroic and tragic, and results in Daniela’s escape with the partisans, who train her in sabotage and battle tactics. She throws herself into living on the run behind enemy lines, and transforms herself into an effective soldier and partisan leader until the war mercifully comes to an end. The Dressmaker’s Daughter is an unflinching look at the horrors inflicted by the Nazis upon the Romanian Jews during the Holocaust, and one brave young woman’s ability to rise above her suffering and escape to freedom.

Author : Lana Kortchik
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008364885
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the Resistance written by Lana Kortchik and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This book has it all: history, suspense, love, loss, and a wonderful narrative that kept me turning page after page... A stunning novel that I truly love and recommend’ NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars ___ The USA Today bestseller!

Author : Lucretia Grindle
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455548790
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Daughter written by Lucretia Grindle and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lucretia Grindle, author of VILLA TRISTE, comes a novel of lives lost and found, as intricate and mysterious as the Italian streets where the story's secrets begin. When American student Kristin Carson enrolls in a study abroad program in Florence, she's sure it will be the best year of her life, a chance to explore art, poetry, and romance in the arms of her new Italian boyfriend. But days before her parents arrive in Florence to celebrate her eighteenth birthday, Kristin disappears. Senior Detective Alessandro Pallioti and his young protégé Enzo Saenz are called to investigate. At first they believe she's simply run off for a romantic weekend and forgotten to tell her parents. But when Kristin's step-mother, Anna, also goes missing, Pallioti and Saenz suspect something much more sinister has happened. As they deepen their investigation they discover that Anna Carson is not who she appears to be, and Kristin's new boyfriend isn't just another local Lothario, but one of the most infamous-and dangerous-men in Italy. To find Kristin, Pallioti and Saenz must first find Anna and uncover the secrets she's kept buried for a lifetime. To do so, they must wade through the past, revisiting times and places most Italians would rather forget, and walk in the footsteps of the dead.

Author : Sonia Shainwald Orbuch
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1619845032
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here, There Are No Sarahs written by Sonia Shainwald Orbuch and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripped of her name, 18-year-old "Sonia" Shainwald went to war without basic training, without equipment, without food or any of the essentials necessary to fight the Germans. Urging her family and neighbors to leave a wretched hiding place during the liquidation of their ghetto, she and her parents and uncle spent a brutal winter in the forests and then joined a heroic Soviet partisan brigade. After the liberation, her family spent three years in a Displaced Persons camp near Frankfurt, and eventually reached America. But Sonia's life in her adopted land has been both tragic and triumphant. “Here, There Are No Sarahs” is co-authored by Holocaust scholar Fred Rosenbaum whose “Taking Risks” (with former partisan Joseph Pell) was praised by the San Francisco Chronical as “so extraordinary that it transcends the genre.” As they were completing their manuscript, Orbuch and Rosenbaum discovered that a trove of touching family correspondence written in the 1930s and 40s lay in a closet in Argentina. The letters, some in Sonia's own hand, were copied, sent to the Bay Area, and translated. Several are published in the book's appendix, along with love poetry penned in the forest in 1943.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399546677
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Bones written by Jane Yolen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Yolen, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, returns to World War II and the Holocaust with this timely and necessary novel. It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. But in all darkness there is light, and the twins find it through Chaim's poetry and the love they have for each other. Like the bright flame of a Yahrzeit candle, his words become a beacon of memory so that the children and grandchildren of survivors will never forget the atrocities that happened during the Holocaust. Filled with brutality and despair, this is also a story of poetry and strength, in which a brother and sister lose everything but each other. Nearly thirty years after the publication of her award-winning and bestselling The Devil's Arithmetic and Briar Rose, Yolen once again returns to World War II and captivates her readers with the authenticity and power of her words. Perfect for fans of Markus Zuzak's The Book Thief and Ruta Sepetys's Salt to the Sea.

Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007289367
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partisans written by Alistair MacLean and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die...

Author : Michael Ross
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526750368
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Partisan written by Michael Ross and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting, evocative memoir of combat in North Africa, danger behind enemy lines, and two daring escapes. In this action-packed account, a Welch Regiment officer describes his remarkable Second World War experiences. These include his baptism by fire in the Western Desert against Rommel’s armor in 1942; the spontaneous help of nomad Arabs when he was on the run for ten days behind enemy lines; and his capture and life as a POW in Italy. Michael Ross and a fellow officer made the first escape from Fontanellato POW camp only to be recaptured on the Swiss border. During his second escape, Ross fought against the occupying German forces in north Italy alongside the Italian partisans, who nearly executed him initially. He avoided recapture for over a year before finally reaching Allied lines. The reader learns of the extraordinary courage and sacrifice of local Italians helping and hiding Allied soldiers. Ross’s story has a poignant conclusion as, while on the run, he fell in love with a prominent anti-fascist’s daughter whom he married after the war. Originally published as From Liguria With Love, this superbly written and updated memoir is a powerful and inspiring tribute to all those who risked their lives to help him and his comrades.

Author : Raḥel Margolis
Publisher : Jews of Poland
ISBN 13 : 9781934843956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Partisan from Vilna written by Raḥel Margolis and published by Jews of Poland. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of Lithuania to sabotage the Nazis. Her memoir details her life and struggles.