ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1972
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Hans Hellmut Kirst - Hero in the Tower
Collins, 1972
320 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: dobro, rabljeno

translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn


This takes place in the late summer of 1940 in a small town not far from Paris. There is a series of `accidental` deaths, which are regarded as not worth investigating, so the only course is to murder the murderers.

About the author
A veteran from WW II, he wrote various novels focused on military life and the corruption in the army.

It all began in the late summer of 1940, soon after the Germans` spectacularly successful campaign in France, when a heavy antiaircraft battery were stationed on the outskirts of D., a town some fifty miles southwest of Paris. The immediate result was a series of fatalities, all officially recorded as accidental deaths. They occurred at a time when the national necessity for war had started to gain widespread acceptance, a time when murder itself was considered quite normal and referred to in current parlance by other, more agreeable names. Even today, there are many who even now would describe what happened as `only human,` if not legally and morally objectionable. And yet, even at that early stage, there did exist a few individuals who regarded the so-called exigencies of war as a blatant personal challenge. It soon dawned on them that, under prevailing rules, their only course was to murder the murderers - or at least one of them. Murder was duly done, and `Case D.` resulted. This book seeks to reconstruct its background.


Fiction, Historical Fiction, 0002213273