by Tim Pears
Pero walks ahead. Tom strides behind him. They are young, and strong. But the young and strong fall at random, at fate’s careless whim. Those who survive must remake the man-made world.
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This author is indebted to the following books, particularly those by Basil Davidson, F.W.D. Deakin and Franklin Lindsay: remarkable accounts by Allied soldiers of their wartime experience:
Martin Armstrong: The Fisherman, a short story, 1927.
Roderick Bailey: Forgotten Voices of the Secret War, Ebury Press, 2008.
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Geoffrey Cox: The Race for Trieste, William Kimber & Co, 1977.
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Basil Davidson: Partisan Picture, Bedford Books Ltd, 1946.
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Christie Lawrence: Irregular Adventure, Faber & Faber, 1946.
Franklin Lindsay: Beacons in the Night – With the OSS and Tito’s Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia, Stanford University Press, 1993.
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Peter Wilkinson: Foreign Fields, The Story of an SOE Operative, I.B. Tauris, 1997.
Thanks to internet resources www.historyplace.com, www.worldwar-2.net, and Wikipedia.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the Authors Foundation for a travel grant which enabled the author to make a visit to Slovenia.
Very special thanks to Alenka Snoj, Drago Mohar and Božo Vidmar for their hospitality and help during that trip. Thank you Bojana Kozul for making the connection.
Thanks to Monika Kokalj Kočevar, MA, at the National Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana.
Heartfelt thanks to editor Jason Arthur, Tom Avery, Stephanie Sweeney and all at William Heinemann and Windmill; to agent Victoria Hobbs; to map-maker Jane Randfield; and to Hania Porucznik and Reb Gowers.
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