A Man Without Breath: A Bernie Gunther Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143125133 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bernie is just hoping to survive the end game when he is sent to Smolensk, where evidence has surfaced of the massacre of Polish officers by the Red Army in the Katyn Forest. --Bill Ott . It’s 1943—after Stalingrad—and every ordinary German, in the service or not, knows the war is going badly. Bernie, naturally, is caught in the middle of it all, with no horse in the race except solving the case in front of him and saving his own skin. Once again, Kerr vividly captures the excruc
. Philip Kerr is the New York Times–bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series. B. Kerr) of the young adult series Children of the Lamp. He lives in London. He is also the author (as P
Well-written thriller. Convincing historical perspectives on Germany's Russian WW2 adventures. Delightful off-beat hum our. W.R.E. Duminy An excellent read. Bernie Gunther is a thought-provoking proxy for many who are compelled (whether by force, or more subtle pressures) to fall into line outwardly with a system they inwardly detest. Non-Nazi Germans in WW2 Germany; white non-racists under apartheid in South Africa. Are they sell-outs, or do they maintain some balance, and contribute to a climate for change? Also, is murder of a monstrous but personally vulnerable f. I really enjoy Kerr's books David B. Juers I really enjoy Kerr's books. He sets a good atmosphere - you feel present in the scenes he describes - and the character dialog is intelligent. He's a "good read" in my opinion, an author I'll go back to. The only complaint I have is that the book I received from Amazon was not the new paperback I ordered but a hardcopy edition - an old, used hardcopy edition judging by the yellowed pages and occasional food stains inside. Still a . Five Stars Robert E. Jacobson another in Bernie Gunther series as he cynically works through WW11 and still survives
But Bernie doesn’t care about fitting in. Then Berlin learns of a Red massacre of Polish troops near Smolensk. And so Bernie Gunther is dispatched. In a rare instance of agreement, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want irrefutable evidence of this Russian atrocity. The New York Times–bestselling author of Prague Fatale and Field Gray is “in a league with John le Carré” (The Washington Post)Berlin, March 1943. In Smolensk, Prussian aristocrats look down at the wise-cracking Berlin bull. He only wants to uncover the identity of a savage killer—before becoming a victim himself.. A month has passed since Stalingrad and morale is low