Cantankerous, old-fashioned, and stubborn as hell, Donald Wilson, was the first American soldier to enter Dachau, and has suffered with the horrors ever since. Now at ninety-five, he grapples with a recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and believes there is nothing left to live for.
When neo-Nazis fire-bomb synagogues in his Pennsylvania hometown, he finds he has one last battle to fight. He only has months left to do this or the evil could rise again and plunge not only America, but the world back into the horrors of the Third Reich
There’s something really quite special about this book. Whilst it is sharing atrocities from the past and present it is also sharing a veterans story and the impacts their service has had on them throughout their lives.
Our main character Donald, you just can’t help but love him. He’s 95, cantankerous, not very mobile, angry, sad, in pain, funny and dying. Does that stop him? Not one bit! I thought that the characters were well written and loved how the main ones each had their own background stories and this did not detract from the book, it just enhanced it beautifully.
I can honestly say that I was not expecting this to be action packed, gripping, humorous and really quite touching in places. A brilliantly written story and definitely worth a read. If you would like a copy you can grab one here #Aff
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