The Village
A Novel of Wartime Crete
Published on 29. March 2019
264 pages
978-1-78535-911-8 (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
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
2,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78535-911-8 (9781785359118)
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03/2019
John Hunt Publishing
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Main Characters
- Prelude
- March 1941: Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- April 1941: Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- May 1941: Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- June 1941: Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- July 1941: Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- November 1941: Chapter 31
- May 1990: Chapter 32
- Author's Note
