Malcolm Lloyd Dubber

Signal from Malta Malcolm Lloyd Dubber

This is a story of a romance between a naval officer and nurse caught up in the closing days of World War Two; set in Malta and Italy. The NKVD, the Russian Security Service, put the nurse under surveillance. She is assigned to lead a party of nurses to Italy, while he patrols the Albanian coast in search of a German SS Panzer division. The NKVD assist the Nazis to escape in exchange for weapons. The SS Officer in charge, has encountered Hazel previously, and is obsessed with revenge. He tasks the NKVD to abduct her but they bungle it, capturing the nurses without the lead nurse. The nurses are held captive on a ship. She is re-united with her naval officer husband, who receives a special signal to rescue the nurses. It is a dramatic rescue. The European war ends. He undertakes a mission but his plane is sabotaged. He is safely rescued. A final drama besets Hazel when the vengeful SS Officer imprisons her in a derelict building. He is killed when she is rescued by the navy. The months march by and she reveals that they are to be a family. This seals their relationship and love for each other.