News from Berlin

Author(s): Otto de Kat

Location(s): Berlin, Switzerland

Genre(s): Novella

Era(s): 1941

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June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl, a ‘good’ German who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Briefly reunited with her father in a restaurant in Geneva, Emma drops a bombshell. A date and a codename, and the fate of nations is placed in Verschuur’s hands: June 22, Barbarossa.

What should he do? Warn the world, or put his daughter’s safety first? The Gestapo are watching them both. And with Stalin lulled by his alliance with Hitler, will anyone even listen?

Otto de Kat is fast gaining a reputation as one of Europe’s sharpest and most lucid writers. News from Berlin, a book for all readers, a true page-turner driven by the pulse of a ticking clock, confirms him as a storyteller of subtly extravagant gifts.

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1941 – A panoply of characters come together around a central moral theme. What should diplomat Oscar Vershuur do with information about the amassing of troops on the Eastern front – invasion is due...

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Separate, yet interwoven, lives in London, Berne and Berlin

Author: Emma

What to do when you have news that could save hundreds of thousands of people, but if told could also result in the death of your daughter? Although a short book (200 pages) there is plenty of depth to...

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Novel set in Berlin and Berne (“Welcome to the heart of Europe”)

Author: tripfiction

Top secret information shared. The fall out is considerable…. It is 1941. Oscar, a Dutch diplomat, is living in Berne, his wife, Kate, is nursing at a hospital for war casualties in London. Their relationship and lives, lyrically...

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