![]() Lewis (he’s referred to throughout by his given name) has been appointed to head the military district that includes Hamburg, the city most famous for being firebombed into ashes by the Royal Air Force. Lewis Morgan, his grief-stricken wife, Rachel, and their surviving teen-aged son, Edmund. ![]() The novel is organized as a kind of ensemble piece, and orbits around the lives of a modest, and empathetic British officer, Col. This story unfolds in British Zone of Occupation, in a time when the bombed-out cities are still smoldering, and when the defeated Germans and their former enemies in the west, still maintain a loathing suspicion of each other’s motives, that can easily cross the line into full-bore hatred. The book is not set in the familiar terrain of the Cold War, once “De-Nazification” has absorbed and absolved the guilty and guiltless alike among the German population, and propelled them into the atomic age of espionage drama. ![]() Rhidian Brook’s novel, The Aftermath, is an engaging journey, driven by emotionally charged characters drawn from a fascinating and seldom explored period of history, the immediate aftermath of World War II in Germany. ![]()
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