So Immortal a Flower — Cecil Roberts

Condition: Good.
First South Africa Edition, Howard B. Timmins, 1944, Vintage Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap – Historical Fiction – 288pp. Published in the U.S.A. Under Title of The Labyrinth.

A powerful and emotive story about the fall of Crete in World War II, and the bravery of its people and the allies who battled to save it.

1941. A young Englishwoman’s happy memories of peacetime Crete lead her to acts of heroism as the island is brutally torn apart by the Nazis.
The idyllic life of brother and sister Sylvia and Richard Day gives way to an era of cruelty and bloodshed, as friends and families find themselves on opposite sides of a struggle to the death.

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