The Trials to Trieste: One Man. One War. One Love. (en Inglés)
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New Zealand, 1939. A hard country, a harder war, and a promise he's not sure he can keep. Jack Meredith leaves his family's high-country sheep station expecting hardship. He doesn't expect Greece, Crete, and the long retreat that follows — or the guilt of a decision at Sidi Rezegh that costs a man his life and never quite lets Jack go. He doesn't expect El Alamein, or Tunisia, or the ridge his mates start calling, with the particular black humor of soldiers, something considerably ruder. And he doesn't expect Isabella. She's the daughter of an Italian farming family near Cassino, running messages for the resistance under the noses of men who would shoot her for it. What starts as stolen eggs and a shared laugh becomes the one thing in five years of war that Jack is not willing to lose — not to the monastery burning on the mountain above them, not to the informer who sells her out, not to the rules of an army that tells him rescue isn't his to attempt. So he attempts it anyway. The Trials to Trieste follows Jack from a Southland muster yard to the fall of Cassino, from an unauthorized raid deep into enemy territory to the last, uneasy days of the Italian campaign — and asks what a man is allowed to want for himself when the whole world has spent five years insisting he want nothing at all. Grounded in the real campaigns of the 2nd New Zealand Division and written with the pace of a thriller and the ache of a love story that never gets the easy ending, this is historical fiction for readers who want their war stories to bleed. Some promises cost more than others. This one costs everything he has left. Plain-text version (for anywhere HTML isn't accepted — Vellum import, ARC copy, etc.): New Zealand, 1939. A hard country, a harder war, and a promise he's not sure he can keep. Jack Meredith leaves his family's high-country sheep station expecting hardship. He doesn't expect Greece, Crete, and the long retreat that follows — or the guilt of a decision at Sidi Rezegh that costs a man his life and never quite lets Jack go. He doesn't expect El Alamein, or Tunisia, or the ridge his mates start calling, with the particular black humor of soldiers, something considerably ruder. And he doesn't expect Isabella. She's the daughter of an Italian farming family near Cassino, running messages for the resistance under the noses of men who would shoot her for it. What starts as stolen eggs and a shared laugh becomes the one thing in five years of war that Jack is not willing to lose — not to the monastery burning on the mountain above them, not to the informer who sells her out, not to the rules of an army that tells him rescue isn't his to attempt. So he attempts it anyway. The Trials to Trieste follows Jack from a Southland muster yard to the fall of Cassino, from an unauthorized raid deep into enemy territory to the last, uneasy days of the Italian campaign — and asks what a man is allowed to want for himself when the whole world has spent five years insisting he want nothing at all. Grounded in the real campaigns of the 2nd New Zealand Division and written with the pace of a thriller and the ache of a love story that never gets the easy ending, this is historical fiction for readers who want their war stories to bleed. Some promises cost more than others. This one costs everything he has left.
