The collaborator / Diane Armstrong.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, an imprint Harlequin Enterprises, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First Australian paperback editionDescription: 472 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781489251664 (paperback)Subject(s): World War (1939-1945) | 1872-1945 | Secrecy -- Fiction | Thriller | Historical fiction | Australian fiction | Collaborationists | Family secrets | Family secrets -- Fiction | Collaborationists -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | Budapest (Hungary) -- Fiction | Hungary -- Budapest | Budapest (Hungary) -- History -- 1872-1945 -- Fiction | AUS historical fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Australian Fiction. | Historical fiction | Australian fiction | Historical fiction. | History. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | Historical fiction | Adult fiction DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: An act of heroism, the taint of collaboration, a doomed love affair, and an Australian woman who travels across the world to discover the truth... It is 1944 in Budapest and the Germans have invaded. Jewish journalist Miklos Nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded Adolf Eichmann in an attempt save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the death camps. But no one could have foreseen the consequences... It is 2005 in Sydney, and Annika Barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to Budapest and Tel Aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944. By the time her odyssey is over, history has been turned on its head, past and present collide, and the secret that has poisoned the lives of three generations is finally revealed in a shocking climax that holds the key to their redemption.
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"Is he a hero or a traitor/" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (page [473])
An act of heroism, the taint of collaboration, a doomed love affair, and an Australian woman who travels across the world to discover the truth... It is 1944 in Budapest and the Germans have invaded. Jewish journalist Miklos Nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded Adolf Eichmann in an attempt save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the death camps. But no one could have foreseen the consequences... It is 2005 in Sydney, and Annika Barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to Budapest and Tel Aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944. By the time her odyssey is over, history has been turned on its head, past and present collide, and the secret that has poisoned the lives of three generations is finally revealed in a shocking climax that holds the key to their redemption.
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