Another brilliantly authentic and compulsively readable war novel, a worthy successor to War of the Rats War of the Rats hit several US bestseller lists and reprinted several times in the UK mass-market edition War of the Rats established David L Robbins as the best popular novelist of the second world war currently writing 'Robbins' deeply researched tome will give readers a breathtaking view of the war as it is strategically played out' New York Post 'White knuckle tension ... immensely exciting' Frederick Forsyth on War of the Rats.
David L. Robbins is the author of 2 previous novels. A former attorney, he now writes full time.
Robbins, author of the best seller War of the Rats, about the Battle of Stalingrad, has produced a novel that encompasses all of World War II. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, the architects of the Allied campaign, are juxtaposed against the common people affected by the war: an American war photographer, two Russian soldiers, and a member of the Berlin Philharmonic, her mother, and a Jew they've been hiding. It's a breathtaking book, and the narrative magic of George Guidall creates another audio classic. Once again, the publisher includes an interview with the author, who discusses the art of writing and his research for this work. Together, Robbins and Guidall bring the war alive for today's listener. James L. Dudley, Westhampton Beach, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Sweeping in scope, this gripping, admirably researched historical novel resumes the account of WWII Robbins left off in War of the Rats. Picking up the narrative just before the stroke of midnight of New Year's Eve 1944, the saga moves skillfully back and forth between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill's cat-and-mouse games for postwar world control and the day-to-day hardships and terrors of ordinary figures caught up in the mortal conflict. Charley Bandy, a Tennessee tobacco farmer turned Life photographer, voluntarily returns to combat to be present for the German surrender. A pair of battle-hardened Russian soldiers, Misha Bakov and Ilya Shokhin, slog through the mud of Poland, pushing to take Berlin. And 26-year-old cellist Lottie (Charlota)Äno last name givenÄthe only female member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, lives in daily terror. Her mother is hiding a Jewish man in the cellar, and the Allied bombers are relentlessly pounding Berlin to rubble in an all-out effort to bring Hitler's Nazis to unconditional surrender. Eisenhower makes a cameo appearance, as do advisers to the Olympian triumvirate, architects of the history of the last half of the 20th century. Overwritten in places, the narrative frequently bogs down in trivia, and Robbins possesses a distracting proclivity for the random obscure (often ill-chosen) word. However, despite use of the third-person present tense, which essentially imposes the author as narrator/reporter and distances the reader from the full intensity of human experience, war buffs should find this an entertaining perspective on the end days of WWII. (Aug.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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