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Patrick Worrall on writing about Europe's dark past - as it threatens to return
My debut thriller The Partisan introduced readers to Greta, a spirited young Lithuanian woman forced to take up the gun when her country is invaded first by the Nazis and then the Soviet Union. The action flickered between World War II and 1961, the height of the Cold War. These settings caused me some trepidation when I started to write the book almost five years ago. Would anyone remember how ruthless the Russians were under Stalin? Would the shadow of nuclear annihilation that hangs over the characters resonate today, in a more peaceful world?
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