The note through the wire / Doug Gold.
Material type: TextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Allen & Unwin, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 335 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1988547091
- 9781988547091
- Murray, Bruce
- Lobnik, Josefine
- Soldiers -- New Zealand -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Slovenia
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, New Zealand
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Personal narratives
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female -- Yugoslavia
- Stalag 383 (Hohenfels, Germany : Concentration camp)
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction (NEST) | Non-Fiction (NEST) | 940.5472 GOL | Available | T00812584 | ||
Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 940.5472 GOL | Available | T00812583 | ||
Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 940.5472 GOL | Available | T00812582 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all odds, between two young people from opposite sides of the globe as they fought for freedom during World War II.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Note Through the Wire is a true World War II love story about a Slovenian partisan, Josefine Lobnik, and a New Zealand prisoner of war, Bruce Murray, who met by chance when she pushed a note through the barbed wire fence of a POW camp. A series of remarkable coincidences saw their lives intersect, but they had to overcome extraordinary obstacles to realise their dream of a life together. On one level this is a rollicking yarn, with tales of intrigue, daring, resistance, retaliation and escape. On another it's a fascinating account of the resistance movement, the disastrous Allied Greek campaign, the harshness of wartime life in a conquered nation, the civil tensions that divided a young country and the barbarity of the advancing Soviet forces. But at its heart this is an against-all-odds love story between a POW and a local freedom fighter - a true story with all the elements of fast-paced fiction.