Ron Duffy

Partisans and Patriots (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

PARTISANS AND PATRIOTS

They refuse to bow to tyranny when their homelands fall to Adolf Hitler's Fascism. They fight back with no thought for themselves, with no weapons stronger than their daring and their courage.

Werner Brandt, a rebel against Nazism, is sent to a reformatory for insubordination, then conscripted into the German army. He deserts in Poland and joins the Polish Resistance. He leads a group of partisans and fights alongside the legendary Major Hubal in southern Poland.

Bram Edelstein's Jewish family seek safety in Paris. When the Germans overrun France, Bram joins the French Resistance and engages in daring acts of sabotage. His sister Rona flees to Poland and risks her life in helping rescue children from the Warsaw ghetto.

When her mother is arrested as a spy, Ania Olenski escapes to her uncle's home on the border of Ukraine and fights with Russian partisans against Germans retreating from the Eastern Front.

Erich and Roksana Brandt smuggle a young Jew out of Warsaw. Sentenced to separate concentration camps, they endure the brutal barbarity of the death camps of Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.

With no help from the Allies, the heroes of this novel and the downtrodden but intrepid people of Poland converge on devastated Warsaw and face with defiance the overwhelming might of the German army.

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death-that is heroism." So quoted the American orator Robert Green Ingersoll. Partisans and Patriots celebrates that will, that duty, and that honor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ron Duffy
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201624255
• Artikelnr.: 64363448

Autorenporträt

Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Ron Duffy spent three years cycling round Europe, before going to Queen's University in Belfast to study geography. As a student he became involved in the activism that led to the start of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, experience that he wrote about in The Ulster Trilogy (The Unquiet Land, In Turbulent Times, A Further Shore, now available in one volume). In 1969 he emigrated to Canada, took an MSc in biogeography at the University of Calgary, and studied for his PhD at McGill University in Montreal. He put his PhD research into his first published book: The Road to Nunavut: The Progress of the Eastern Arctic since the Second World War.

In Montreal he began a long career as a university lecturer in geography, before turning to full-time creative writing. His novel Crossed Lives received an Honourable Mention at the New York Book Festival in 2012. At the Whistler Book Festival (British Columbia) in 2016 Crossed Lives was a nominee for a Whistler Independent Book Award, and his Irish historical novel O'Hanlon received an Honourable Mention. Meanwhile he writes a blog at www.facebook.com/RonDuffyWriting

He and his Canadian wife, Joanne, have two sons and now live in Vancouver, British Columbia.