Miracle Typist

Silver, Leon
Miracle Typist

Miracle Typist

Silver, Leon

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Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s ground and air forces are bearing down on his country, Jew Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. However, when the Luftwaffe’s bombs start falling and the Polish cause looks hopelessly lost, Tolek finds himself under fire from his supposed brothers in arms. The Polish army is rife with anti-Semitism and he is relentlessly tormented. As the Germans cross the border, he is faced with a terrible dilemma: flee to protect his family – and risk being shot as a deserter – or ride out the war, hoping rumours of women and children being spared in the concentration camps are true.

What follows is an odyssey that will take Tolek from a Hungarian internment camp, where his ability to type spares him from the frontline, on to Palestine, Beirut, Egypt, Tobruk and Italy. A broken telegram from Klara, ending with the haunting words, ‘We trouble’, pushes him to the brink.

Author:   Silver, Leon
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Australia
ISBN:  

9781760854355


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 September 2020
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Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s ground and air forces are bearing down on his country, Jew Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. However, when the Luftwaffe’s bombs start falling and the Polish cause looks hopelessly lost, Tolek finds himself under fire from his supposed brothers in arms. The Polish army is rife with anti-Semitism and he is relentlessly tormented. As the Germans cross the border, he is faced with a terrible dilemma: flee to protect his family – and risk being shot as a deserter – or ride out the war, hoping rumours of women and children being spared in the concentration camps are true.

What follows is an odyssey that will take Tolek from a Hungarian internment camp, where his ability to type spares him from the frontline, on to Palestine, Beirut, Egypt, Tobruk and Italy. A broken telegram from Klara, ending with the haunting words, ‘We trouble’, pushes him to the brink.

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Author:   Silver, Leon
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Australia
ISBN:  

9781760854355


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   02 September 2020
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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