Sins of the Fathers
A Novel
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- 107,99 zł
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- 107,99 zł
Publisher Description
In the tradition of Herman Wouk, author of Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the novel Sins of the Fathers is the thoroughly researched historical sequel to Wolf.
History hinged on a call as the German high command waited for Hitler’s order to invade Czechoslovakia. That was the signal that would launch their revolt to bring down the Reich.
Every detail of the coup was in place. Access roads to Berlin would be blocked. The city sealed. Communication centers taken. A commando squad―sixty hand-picked men―were ready to storm the Chancellery and seize Hitler. The only open question: to try Hitler as a traitor or execute him on the spot.
Sins of the Fathers is the eye-opening novel―based on historical facts―of the efforts of German military leaders, career civil servants, and clergy to solicit England’s assistance to bring down the tyrant in 1938. When Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain refused to meet with them, they turned to Winston Churchill, who secretly supported their cause. Armed with a strongly worded letter from the future prime minister, they waited for Hitler’s telephone call ordering German troops to invade Czechoslovakia―the signal for their uprising. But the call did not come. Instead, Prime Minister Chamberlain went to Hitler’s apartment in Munich only to bow to the dictator’s will. The invasion was over before it began―and with that, so was the coup. Flying home, Chamberlain announced he had obtained “peace for our times.”
Sins of the Fathers―the sequel to Wolf about Hitler’s rise to power―tells the dramatic true story of the foolish prime minister that undermined the coup to topple the regime, delivered Czechoslovakia to Hitler, saved the Führer’s life, and paved the road to World War II.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Based on the real-life little-known story of a 1938 attempt on Adolf Hitler's life, Stern and Winter's workmanlike sequel to 2020's Wolf picks up the action where its predecessor left off in 1934. During WWI, an unidentified amnesiac German soldier injured in the Second Battle of the Marne was sent to a hospital for psychiatric treatment. Known as Patient X, he was given the name of a dead patient, Friedrich Richard. Adolf Hitler was in the bed next to his, being treated for hysterical blindness. The two became friends, and Friedrich went on to become an SS general and one of Hitler's most trusted advisers after the Nazis took power. When Hitler's real agenda about war and the treatment of Jews becomes apparent, Friedrich decides the Führer must be eliminated, and he meets with other conspirators to plan and execute the assassination. Friedrich's romance with photographer Carla Bartheel adds a bit of heat, but the entire enterprise falls apart when a secondary story concerning Friederich's real identity limps to a halt along with the cabal's failure to kill Hitler. The Day of the Jackal this isn't.
