Which character did you most connect with and why?Ģ. and love, loyalty and trust will fight a battle to the last.ġ. For Carl and Athena, it becomes a desperate quest for survival. 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.ĭecisions 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. When Carl arrives in Crete with Allied Forces soldiers evacuated from the Greek mainland, he and Athena are intoxicated by each other. 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. But if enlisting is the only way he can save his German-born father, Dr Louis Schmidt, from an internment camp, he will.ġ941: Athena Papandrakis has grown up on the island of Crete, swimming in jewelled waters and exploring ancient ruins. He is training to be a doctor and wants to protect lives, not take them. A heartfelt, sweeping saga of World War II, from the peaceful farmlands of NSW to the Mediterranean's glittering, dangerous shores, for readers of Fiona McIntosh, Nicole Alexander and Natasha Lester.ġ939: Australian-born Carl Smith loves his country and despises fascism, but he never meant to go to war. A young German-Australian soldier meets a passionate Cretan girl and together they are caught up in guerrilla warfare during the brutal Nazi invasion of Crete. But more than that, this book shows us where we have come from as a nation, by revealing the adversity and passions that forged us.Ī stunning novel that brings to life the love and courage that formed our Anzac tradition. 1941. a time of desperate love born in desperate times and acts of friendship against impossible odds.Ī love letter to Australian landscape and character, Gallipoli Street celebrates both mateship and the enduring quality of real love. An Anzac tale of three families whose destinies are entwined by war, tragedy and passion.Īt 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy and what promises to be a future of restraint and compliance.īut this is 1913 and the genteel tranquillity of rural Beecroft is about to change forever as the O'Shay and Murphy families, along with their friends the Dwyers, are caught up in the theatre of war and their fates become intertwined.įrom the horrors of Gallipoli to the bloody battles of the Somme, through love lost and found, the Great Depression and the desperate jungle war along the Kokoda Track, this sprawling family drama brings to life a time long past.
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