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THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and becomes Churchill's aide-de-camp; his twin brother, a pacifist, works with the Red…
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This is an odd alternate history, but one that sneaks up on you very quietly. It begins with a writer researching the lives of two identical twins in England at the outset of WWII.
They had been Olympic rowers together earlier, but in spite of their brotherly love, they took two very distinct life paths in the war. One becomes a pacifist, and so he joins the Red Cross, while the other joins the RAF and becomes a bomber pilot in the war effort.
Then, as you read, there comes a subtle ripple of something amiss in the events of…
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