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The Partisans | 
 enlarge | Author: Alistair Maclean
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £10.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 825864
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0002226901
EAN: 9780002226905
ASIN: 0002226901
Publication Date: October 7, 1982
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Condition: 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. 25% of the proceeds from this book will be donated to charity. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good
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 Ok but not Alistair Maclean's best. July 15, 2008
"Smith" Reader (West Midlands United Kingdom)
This is a complex book and for me too many charactors. There are many people who I just could not remember what part they played in the story.
To me the ending was rushed.
3 stars as there are some great passages.
 Synopsis August 29, 2007
Attic Books (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Partisans in Yugoslavia, led by Josip Broz Tito, are fiercly and effectively resisting the German occupation of their homeland. Fighting such courage and resilience and the waning morale of their Italian allies, the German High Command masterminds a strategy which will totally annihilate the Partisan resistance. Three men are given the dangerous assignment of conveying the battle plan to the pro-German Yugoslav Royalists. Three men, led by the enigmatic Major Peter Petersen, all highly trained in the skills of espionage and guerrilla warfare. Three men who are tough, ruthless and fearless. And all are Yugoslavs. But where do their loyalties lie? And who are the four strangers Petersen is forced to escort on the hazardous journey? As Major Petersen and his squad sail stealthily across the Adriatic sea and into the desolate terrain of war-torn Yugoslavia, betrayal, suspicion and fear close in like the chill mists of the Dalmatian mountains.
 Complex January 3, 2007
Somnambulist (Manchester, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Maybe it was the fact that I couldn't get into this book at first that I foolishly left it approximately a month between picking it up to read the first chapter, and finishing it off. But by the time I'd returned to the book, it took me longer to reacquaint myself with the vast number of characters who appear on the boat, than a real Adriatic crossing. Like River of Death that I bought at the same time, this doesn't quite feel long enough to be a real novel. The journey aspect to this "road-trip" novel is well paced, but falters badly at the end as the purpose of the trip just sort of fizzles out. It is almost as if Maclean gets bored by the end, and tries to tie up the novel in a quick chapter. The plot climax premise is tenable, but badly executed in the same way that Where Eagles Dare, isn't. Maclean tries to play on the deep divisions within the Balkan peoples, and weave this into the eventual reasoning, but doesn't carry it off. The end comes too quickly, and is badly executed. The usual anti-hero Petersen is good, and George and Alex, but some of the other characters are a little obvious and blunt.
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