Partisans

by Alistair MacLean

Hardcover, 1983

Status

Available

Call number

F Mac

Call number

F Mac

Barcode

7180

Collection

Publication

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983.

Description

In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die... PARTISANS While Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction. PARTISANS Three Yugoslavs set out from Rome to relay the German battle plan - but their loyalties lie elsewhere. PARTISANS A dangerous journey with dangerous companions -where no one is who they seem -where the three find intrigue and betrayal around every corner...

Original publication date

1982

User reviews

LibraryThing member TadAD
MacLean is just gone. Read his books from the 60s if you want good thrillers.
LibraryThing member Neilsantos
Wasn't a bad book, although the ending was a little abrupt. Felt very much like "Where Eagles Dare" with all of the double agents and double crosses. I'll try another of his, they are small so it should be easy.
LibraryThing member lamour
This is a complicated adventure yarn set during WW II in Yugoslavia with the Italians and Germans being the enemy as are the Cetniks, while Tito's Partisans are the group the Allied spies and soldiers are trying to serve. There is some romance as two women end up being on the trek into the
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mountains with one of whom is spying for the enemy because they have kidnapped her child to make sure she feeds them the hero's plans.

The hero, Major Peter Peterson, is a little too smart and well informed to be entirely credible but the villains never have a chance with him as leader and his buddy, George, a university professor of languages, as his partner.
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LibraryThing member fuzzi
A thoroughly engaging story of intrigue in the early days of World War II, with enough twists to satisfy a pretzel connoisseur.

Rating

(75 ratings; 3.1)

Pages

244
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