It is always hard to write and compare novels about World War II because it’s difficult to ascertain how much fiction is too much fiction and how much fiction will not ruin the truthfulness a historical novel needs to have in order to be genuine and believable. After reading testimonies by real Holocaust survivors about …
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Rosella Postorino, Hitlerove kušačice / At the Wolf’s Table
Scroll down for English Vrlo živo i životno, živahno i iskreno ispričana priča o životu fikcionalne Hitlerove kušačice Rose, opisujući i približujući nam Njemačku pred kraj Drugog svjetskog rata. Hitler trpi poraze u Rusiji i njegova paranoja raste u očekivanju atentata i trovanja. Rosa se kao pripovjedačica ističe izravnošću i iskrenošću, tu nema općih mjesta …
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Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
Set in the time when the WWII is already over, when „Everything had already happened.“, this is a novel that is anything but finished with the wartime past. „It was a time of war ghosts, the grey buildings unlit, even at night, their shattered windows still covered over with black material where glass had been. …
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