Forced into the brutal Battle of the Bulge of 1944, two soldiers on opposing sides find the courage to desert a war gone sour.
Under False Flags
β Scribed by Steve Anderson
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing;Yucca Publishing
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A "blastingly realistic, impeccably researched" World War II novel set during the brutal Battle of the Bulgeβwhere two enemies must become allies (John Enright, author of Fire Knife Dancing).
As the Germans launch their counterattack on the advancing Allied forces, two men separated by country are about to find themselves on the same side of the warβtheir own.
For American GI Wendell Lett, any dreams of glory in battle have been crushed by the horrors he's witnessed. Then he meets a kind, caring Belgian woman who offers him salvation from the carnageβonly to be torn away when he's pushed into a reckless, pointless false flag mission. In order to live, he has to run.
German seaman Holger Frings is far from the oceans he hoped to sail when he is chosen for a risky assignment he knows will end with his death. To make it back in one piece, he must do the unthinkableβdisobey his superiors and desert his...
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