Kate Forsyth speaks about her book 'The Crimson Thread'
Wed, 25 Oct
|CCANESA, Madsen Building F09
AAIA | Kate Forsyth | The Crimson Thread: Retelling of the Anzac story through Cretan myths.
Time & Location
25 Oct 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
CCANESA, Madsen Building F09, Madsen Building, University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2050, Australia
About The Event
The author, Kate Forsyth
The people of Crete had three great passions: love of country, love of freedom, love of life.
The Nazis brought subjugation, enslavement, death.
May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, men, women and children fighting machine guns with daggers, pitchforks and kitchen knives tied to broomsticks.
During the ferocious ten-day battle that follows, a young Greek woman named Alenka saves the lives of two young Allied soldiers.
Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. Both are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering, snow-clad White Mountains. Both are left behind in the desperate and dramatic evacuation.