Escape from Konigsberg
This epic novel has been featured in the New York Review of Books and the compelling Kirkus Review made the top Indy featured reviews in the July Kirkus Magazine. Readers are touched by this story that pits the indomitable human spirit against the horrors of war with parallels drawn to Dr. Zhivago and one avid novel reader kindly saying "Think Hemingway."
I was inspired to write the novel after meeting an elderly man whose story of escaping the brutal Red Army after his mother was killed touched me deeply. His father was a POW since the start of WWII and his mother who along with countless other women was murdered by Soviet soldiers who overran the 700-year-old city that was destroyed to the ground by Allied bombing raids on August 26, 27 of 1944.
The 14-year-old boy summoned the courage to escape on one of the last coal trains out of Konigsberg in the midst of the harsh East Prussian winter along with his two sisters aged 6 and 10. Kirkus Reviews has lauded this novel with quotes such as "beautifully depicted", "Tosoff's research is admirably meticulous" and "He captures the impossible predicament of so many Germans at the time-loyal to their native land but also left at the mercy of an insanely criminal regime."
Find out for yourself why Escape from Konigsberg is the best kept secret of 2018 so far.
Watch for it in the August edition of Kirkus aimed at film executives and other book industry professionals. Escape From Konigsberg
I was inspired to write the novel after meeting an elderly man whose story of escaping the brutal Red Army after his mother was killed touched me deeply. His father was a POW since the start of WWII and his mother who along with countless other women was murdered by Soviet soldiers who overran the 700-year-old city that was destroyed to the ground by Allied bombing raids on August 26, 27 of 1944.
The 14-year-old boy summoned the courage to escape on one of the last coal trains out of Konigsberg in the midst of the harsh East Prussian winter along with his two sisters aged 6 and 10. Kirkus Reviews has lauded this novel with quotes such as "beautifully depicted", "Tosoff's research is admirably meticulous" and "He captures the impossible predicament of so many Germans at the time-loyal to their native land but also left at the mercy of an insanely criminal regime."
Find out for yourself why Escape from Konigsberg is the best kept secret of 2018 so far.
Watch for it in the August edition of Kirkus aimed at film executives and other book industry professionals. Escape From Konigsberg
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