Lost Temple - Softcover

Lost Temple

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 457 pages. Cover worn.c1250 BC.The thousand ships of Greece set sail for Troy.Aboard are fabled her oes such as Agamemnon, Menelaus, Odysseus and Achilles - but also a detachment f rom Crete led by Idomeneus, grandson of the legendary King Minos. Few will retur n. 1941.While excavating the ruins of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete, E nglish archaeologist John Pemberton uncovers a strange cave which seems to have been excavated more than three thousand years ago. A stone plaque carved with Mi noan script hints at the cave's important history, but the language is unknown a nd has resisted fifty years of attempts to decipher it. Before Pemberton can lea rn more, the German invasion of Crete begins and he is forced to flee for his li fe across the island. 1943.Klaus Belzin, a major in the elite Sonderkommando R osenberg, scours occupied Greece for the identities and assets of local Jews.But when he breaks into a Byzantine monastery which he suspects of harbouring fugit ives, he finds an ancient manuscript: part of a lost poem hitherto known only by references in later authors. It continues the tale begun in the Iliad - and off ers tantalising hints to the location of the mythical White Island where the her oes of Troy were buried. 1947.SOE officer Sam Grant had a good war, right up t o the moment he was court-martialled for striking a superior.Now he's a smuggler , running guns to Jewish insurgents in Palestine.But he has a secret: a notebook given to him by a dying archaeologist during the German invasion of Crete in 19 41.The knowledge it contains could point the way to one of the greatest treasure s of antiquity. Alan Reed never fired a shot against the Nazis; he spent the war behind a desk pushing papers.But the desk was in Station X, the code-breaking c. Artikel-Nr. 345u

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