Never to surrender / Mary-Anne O'Connor.
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TextSeries: Read how you want 16Copyright date: ©2023Publisher: [Strawberry Hills, NSW] : ReadHowYouWant, [2023]Edition: Large print editionDescription: viii, 489 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781038725462 (paperback)Subject(s): Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Crete -- Fiction | Internment camps -- Australia -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Crete (Greece) -- Fiction | Crete (Greece) -- History -- Occupation, 1941-1945 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Romance fiction. | Large print books. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 1939: Australian-born Carl Smith loves his country and despises fascism, but he never meant to go to war. He is training to be a doctor and wants to protect lives, not take them. But if enlisting is the only way he can save his German-born father, Dr Louis Schmidt, from an internment camp, he will. 1941: Athena Papandrakis has grown up on the island of Crete, swimming in jewelled waters and exploring ancient ruins. Now her home is under threat and she is ready to fight to defend it from the hated Nazi invaders, just as her ancestors sought to protect their island home in the past. When Carl arrives in Crete with Allied Forces soldiers evacuated from the Greek mainland, he and Athena are intoxicated by each other. Carl is not the man her traditional parents would have chosen for their daughter, however, and hiding the secret of his German heritage from Athena could further threaten their love. Decisions must be made when they find themselves in an intense final stand against the Nazis as the Allied Forces retreat and the Cretan peasants are forced into guerrilla warfare. For Carl and Athena, it becomes a desperate quest for survival, and love, loyalty and trust will fight a battle to the last.
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1939: Australian-born Carl Smith loves his country and despises fascism, but he never meant to go to war. He is training to be a doctor and wants to protect lives, not take them. But if enlisting is the only way he can save his German-born father, Dr Louis Schmidt, from an internment camp, he will. 1941: Athena Papandrakis has grown up on the island of Crete, swimming in jewelled waters and exploring ancient ruins. Now her home is under threat and she is ready to fight to defend it from the hated Nazi invaders, just as her ancestors sought to protect their island home in the past. When Carl arrives in Crete with Allied Forces soldiers evacuated from the Greek mainland, he and Athena are intoxicated by each other. Carl is not the man her traditional parents would have chosen for their daughter, however, and hiding the secret of his German heritage from Athena could further threaten their love. Decisions must be made when they find themselves in an intense final stand against the Nazis as the Allied Forces retreat and the Cretan peasants are forced into guerrilla warfare. For Carl and Athena, it becomes a desperate quest for survival, and love, loyalty and trust will fight a battle to the last.
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