New Purpose

In John Buchan’s adventure story, Richard Hannay and Peter Pienaar are making their away through central Europe to Constantinople during the Great War. They reach Belgrade, and Hannay sees for himself the sufferings of an occupied country. It moves him to admiration for the resilience of the Serbs, and to new resolution in his own mission for the Allies.

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