****"*****On Desperate Ground*** **is first-rate narrative history. Hampton Sides' characters are richly drawn, his background history engrossing, and his battle scenes bone-chillingly realisticβa great read."** **βDaniel James Brown, #1** ***New York Times*** **bestselling author of** ***The Boys
On Desperate Ground
β Scribed by Benn, James
- Book ID
- 108425178
- Publisher
- E-Reads
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 256 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
ON DESPERATE GROUND is the story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them?life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loved and feels he is going inexorably insane. He hears the haunting voice of his dead fianc?e and the demons that roar through his mind as he perfects a plan to save Nazi Germany from defeat and insure a greater and deadlier new world war. Captain Dieter Neukirk, once a protege of Faust?s, is more concerned with saving the lives of his remaining men than in sacrificing them in a fanatical last stand. Meanwhile, Elsa Klein, Dieter?s lover and the chief social worker at a Berlin hospital, is engaged in her own dangerous work, providing medical care and identity papers to hidden Jews in the city. American Captain Mack Mackenzie, pulled from a military hospital before his wounds are healed...
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