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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 The Collaborator
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'An act of heroism, the taint of collaboration, a doomed love affair, and an Australian woman who travels across the world to discover the truth...

'It is 1944 in Budapest and the Germans have invaded. Miklos Nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded Adolf Eichmann in an attempt save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the death camps. But no one could have foreseen the consequences...

'It is 2005 in Sydney, and Annika Barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to Budapest and Tel-Aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944.

'By the time her odyssey is over, history has been turned on its head, past and present collide, and the secret that has poisoned the lives of three generations is finally revealed in a shocking climax that holds the key to their redemption.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: HQ Fiction , 2019 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Reprinted: 8 Jul 2020
      Note/s:
      • Published 19 August 2019.

      ISBN: 9781489251664 (hbk), 1489251669, 9781489251664 (pbk), 1489251669 (pbk), 9781489251671 (ebook), 1489251677 (ebook)

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Human Cost of a Daring Act Louise Adler , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 September 2019; (p. 22)

— Review of The Collaborator Diane Armstrong , 2019 single work novel

'War inevitably tests the collective and individual moral fabric, and World War II was no exception. Entire nations stand condemned or commended for complicity or resistance to the Third Reich while individuals collaborated, were passive bystanders or courageous resisters.'  (Introduction)

Human Cost of a Daring Act Louise Adler , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 September 2019; (p. 22)

— Review of The Collaborator Diane Armstrong , 2019 single work novel

'War inevitably tests the collective and individual moral fabric, and World War II was no exception. Entire nations stand condemned or commended for complicity or resistance to the Third Reich while individuals collaborated, were passive bystanders or courageous resisters.'  (Introduction)

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