Death & Honor picks up from the closing events of Secret Honor. Following Korvettenkapitän Karl Boltitz’s discovery of Hans-Peter von Wachstein as the traitor in the embassy and the German Ambassador’s intercession, Peter takes Boltitz with him to meet Cletus Frade and to explain the situation to him. Arriving at Cletus’ estancia with Boltitz, Peter […]
Secret Honor doesn’t pick up immediately from the events at the end of Blood & Honor, as one would expect after the explosive (literally) ending of the second book. Instead, it starts with the seemingly unrelated incident of a lone German car being strafed by an American P-38 Lightning in the deserts of Tunisia; an […]
Blood & Honor takes place about two months after the events of Honor Bound. After successfully carrying out his mission of destroying a “neutral” vessel replenishing German submarines in Argentine territorial waters, Cletus Frade and Tony Pelosi have returned to USA; with accompanying medals and promotions for their valorous actions. The third member of the […]
W. E. B. Griffin is the pseudonym of William Edmund Butterworth III. Like a lot of authors with more than two names (I’m looking at you, JRRT, GRRM and J. D. Robb!) he cannot stop himself from creating sagas with every subject he writes on. He has more than 50 books to his credit, all […]
War becomes such a larger than life affair that the everyday struggles of civilians are often forgotten or overlooked in its flash-bang nature. Yet, it is these civilians who, come war, hail or high water, are the ones who plod through their daily lives while the fight rages on around them; and in the end […]
The scale and number of twists and turns World War 2 had over a span of a few years has been fodder for multiple generations of historians and conspiracy theorists alike. Not the ones to be left out, many writers too have successfully utilized the ‘What if?’ trope of writing (popularly known as Alternate History […]
Once in a while, you come across a story that is extremely simple on the surface, but as you read it and finish it, it keeps tugging at your memory with its subtle layers. Then you pick it up and read it again, and slowly the layers all become visible simultaneously and you see it […]
Leon Uris is my literary equivalent of comfort food – I find myself going back to his familiar pages after every 7-8 books. It also helps that most of his books take place in the era I am interested in, so it’s like visiting my favourite place all over again. The book I revisited this […]
WW2 may have been won by the Allies, but even today the scribes of the victors cannot stop themselves from paying backhanded compliments to their erstwhile enemies. They tell stories where the Allies win in the end, but throughout the story it is the adversary who is shown to be smarter, fitter, more moral (or […]
No, I haven’t misspelt the title, nor have I confused the author with someone else. I stumbled upon this book while searching for another one (not The Girl on the Train). The reasons I guess this book isn’t known more widely is it was translated into English from Afrikaans in 2015; and the publishers’ bid […]
War Crows 