Journal Entry 1 by matindautomne from Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes France on Sunday, May 30, 2004

"Modern history and suspenseful fiction are here brilliantly combined by a master of both. The plot revolves around two brothers, sons of a wealthy Berlin banker and his American wife, whose conflicting destinies are the means by which Deighton (Blitzkrieg, The Ipcress File) tells the story of Germany from 1900 to the end of World War II. Peter Winter, who flies zeppelins in World War I, becomes a staunch anti-Nazi and then a colonel in the American Army; Paul, charming, ambitious and psychologically flawed, becomes a top legal adviser to the Nazi regime. They finally confront each other at Nuremberg. Though Paul is not entirely convincing as a basically "nice" Nazi, who has conscience enough to save his brother's Jewish wife yet gives spurious legal sanction to Hitler's atrocities without a qualm, both he and his brother are handy pegs on which Deighton hangs accurate, exciting and cleverly selected dollops of social, political and front-line military history, while highlighting the tensions between Prussian and Bavarian, Wehrmacht and SS that hastened the nation's rush toward suicide."  

Journal Entry 2 by cliff1976 from Regensburg, Bayern Germany on Friday, October 08, 2004

Wow, thanks for sending this, matindautomne — I look forward to reading it. Your book in trade is on its way. 

Journal Entry 3 by cliff1976 from Regensburg, Bayern Germany on Thursday, November 11, 2004

Wow, what a great book. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. I think of it as being in the same vein as "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance."

I'm going to try to get MarahSulloy to read it, and then maybe give it on to some friends visiting soon from California who will be traveling to many places mentioned in the book. 

Journal Entry 4 by MarahSulloy from Regensburg, Bayern Germany on Saturday, December 04, 2004

This was pretty good, and I generally enjoy stories set in WWII. The characters are very well developed and it's extra cool since I was just in Berlin and I'm familiar with several of the places mentioned. It gives an interesting perspective on why the war progressed the way it did. 

Journal Entry 5 by cliff1976 from Regensburg, Bayern Germany on Tuesday, December 07, 2004

We liked this book so much that we decided to send it to the apartment rental company in Berlin where we recently spent a long weekend. We hope that either the proprietors read and and enjoy it themselves, or set it free in one of their rental properties for future guests to read and release.