Village, The
A Novel of Wartime Crete
Published on 29. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-78535-910-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-910-1 (9781785359101)
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03/2019
Top Hat Books
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Person
Philip Duke is a retired professor of anthropology. He and his wife lived on the island of Crete, Greece for five years before returning to the United States in 2015. His first novel, A Terrible Unrest, is currently being turned into a screenplay. Philip now lives in Durango, Colorado, USA.