Book 9, in the Bernard Gunther MysteryIt can get enough of this author’s wonderful imagination. His novels although in good part fiction have a chilling authenticity to them. Each story is based on actual events that happened during the horrible years of the Nazi Germany. Through his words he brings...
This is the third work of WW II fiction that I've read in the past year that has focused on the Katyn Forest massacre. What's with that?Otherwise, interesting peek at a horrible period in history, but I'm liking Bernie Gunther less and less.
Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide cop, is now an investigator for the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau. Bernie, with all the cynicism of a Berliner, is keenly aware of the absurdity of the agency's practice of turning a blind eye to the systematic torture and murder of Jews, Gypsies, communists, Sl...