Partisan Audiobook Libro.fm

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The gripping story of a New Zealand solider who escaped the clutches of a prisonerofwar camp to join the Yugoslav freedom fighters during the Second World War
After a daring escape from a prisonerofwar camp in occupied Yugoslavia John Denvir reached the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana where he joined a partisan band as a machinegunner Believed shot and killed by New Zealand forces and his family in New Zealand from January 1942 until the end of 1943 Denvir led brave and heroic attacks on German and Italian soldiers from behind enemy lines He was wounded four times received the Soviet Medal for Valour and was eventually appointed brigade commander When Corporal Frank was demobilised he returned to New Zealand and became a taxi driver in the small South Island town of Temuka