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Bezig met laden... The End of War: A Novel of the Race for Berlin (editie 2000)door David L. Robbins (Auteur)
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In the final months of the Second World War, one strategic question above all occupies the Allies: which liberating army will be the first to march into Berlin. On the western front, Montgomery lobbies for the honour, while Eisenhower becomes more and more determined to thwart him and put an American general -- Bradley or Patton -- in charge of the final thrust; in the east, Stalin's armies advance steadily and ruthlessly towards the apotheosis of their vengeance. David L. Robbins orchestrates the story of the final months of war through the eyes of a gallery of characters both invented and real. We see the western front through the eyes of an American war photographer; Berlin through a mother and daughter hiding a Jewish refugee in the cellar of their house; the eastern advance through soldiers in a punishment battalion, whose fate is to lead every assault. This is another brilliantly authentic and compulsively readable war novel, a worthy successor to WAR OF THE RATS. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Extraordinary and powerful. I’m reminded of "A Soldier of the Great War" (about an Italian soldier in WWI). Thoroughly researched, brilliantly written – at times, lyrical – this is a novelization of history constructed (as the author explains) like a classical Greek drama. The Big Three are the Olympian gods who set things in motion; General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery are the Heroes who confront the will of the gods and do battle with destiny; and the fictional characters are the little actors who have Fate visited upon them.
What is most interesting is how what each fictional character thinks they want at the beginning of the novel is reversed by the end. Robbins not only knows how to structure a novel, he also brings craft to the telling of story. Great read. ( )