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'Gripping and authentic' NEW YORK TIMES

'Heartrending . . . An engrossing read' FINANCIAL TIMES

SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH

Max Weill has never forgotten the face of Otto Schramm, a doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the…

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I picked this book up during my honeymoon in Italy and could barely put it down. And that’s saying a lot when you’re sitting on a balcony in picturesque Positano! In any case, anyone who knows me knows that I’m a sucker for anything to do with tracking down Nazi war criminals after World War II, and this book checks all the boxes.

When his famed Nazi-hunting uncle suddenly dies with unfinished business, CIA analyst Aaron Wiley travels to South America to bring justice to a sadistic German doctor who escaped. There’s just one problem: he begins to fall in…

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Karl's War by Neil Spark,

Karl's War is a coming-of-age-meets-thriller set in Germany on the eve of Hitler coming to power. Karl – a reluctant poster boy for the Nazis – meets Jewish Ben and his world is up-turned.

Ben and his family flee to France. Karl joins the German army but deserts and finds…

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