About the Book:
The German War Machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Rising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany’s defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians. If they can find the Katyn Order before the Russians do, they just might change the fate of Poland.
About the Author:
Douglas W. Jacobson is an engineer, business owner and World War Two history enthusiast. Doug has traveled extensively in Europe researching stories of the courage of common people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. His debut novel, Night of Flames: A Novel of World War Two was published in 2007 by McBooks Press, and was released in paperback in 2008. Night of Flames won the “2007 Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Wisconsin Library association. Doug writes a monthly column on Poland’s contribution during WW2, has published articles on Belgium’s WW2 escape organization, the Comet Line and other European resistance organizations. Doug’s second historical novel, The Katyn Order, which will be released in May, 2011, focuses on one of history’s most notorious war crimes, the Katyn massacre.
You can visit his website at www.douglaswjacobson.com.
My Opinion:
The horrors inflicted in WWII are just too terrible to ignore. This book details a Soviet - I'm having trouble coming up with a word - let's call it an incident like they do in the book where Lenin ordered the mass murder of 20,000 Polish citizens. I knew very little about this before I read the book and like most tales like this from history I wish I still knew very little. The horrors man inflicts ...sigh.
On to the book. It is a very well written, very exciting thriller about a horrifying true event. Fictional characters are seamlessly mixed with historical to draw you into time and place for sometimes very hard to read book. Not hard to read because of Mr. Jacobson's skill - hard to read because of the subject matter.
Mr. Jacobson does an excellent job of drawing you into the horror while still keeping you involved with the two main individuals. Their developing relationship is quite believable and you truly want them to find some manner of peace.
The ending was a doozy and came out of what one would expect from post WWII Soviet politics.
The Katyn Order is Available at Amazon.com
Disclosure: I received a copy of The Katyn Order gratis from Pump Up Your Book Promotions. Any opinions expressed are my honest opinions and were not impacted by my receipt of the free book. I received no monetary compensation for this post.
1 comments:
I've never been a fan of WW books, but it does sound interesting.
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