| ISBN |
9781038617118 |
| Name |
Forsyth, Kate, 1966- author. |
| Title |
The crimson thread / Kate Forsyth ; read by Aaron Tsindos, Zoe Carides & Socratis Otto. |
| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Published |
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022] |
| ℗2022 |
| Description |
11 audio discs (CD) (13 hr., 25 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
| Performers |
Read by Aaron Tsindos, Zoe Carides and Socratis Otto. |
| Summary |
May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks and kitchen knives. During the bloody 11-day battle, Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two Australian soldiers. Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. They are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering White Mountains. Both are among the 7000 Allied soldiers left behind in the desperate evacuation from Crete's storm-lashed southern coast. Alenka hides Jack and Teddy at great risk to herself. Her brother, Axel, is a Nazi sympathiser and collaborator and spies on her movements. As Crete suffers under the Nazi jackboot, Alenka is drawn into an intense triangle of conflicting emotions with Jack and Teddy. Together, they join the resistance and fight to free the island, but all three will find themselves tested to their limits. |
| Subjects |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece -- Fiction |
| Australians -- Greece -- Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction |
| Young women -- Greece -- Fiction |
| Crete (Greece) -- History -- Occupation, 1941-1945 -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Audiobooks |
| War fiction |
| Historical fiction |
| Other Names |
Tsindos, Aaron narrator. |
| Otto, Socratis narrator. |
| Carides, Zoe narrator. |
| Added Corporate Names |
Penguin Random House |
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