Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
I have had more than my fair share of films, documentaries, and books about World War II. My first real taste of this tragic event was in Year 10 History, notably the series World at War, suitably narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier. A.J.P. Taylor provided the background reading. Recently, I have enjoyed the works of Antony Beevor and Annie Jacobsen, the later introduced me to Operation Paperclip. Steven Speilberg’s movie Saving Private Ryan gives probably the best rendering of battle scenes. My grandfather, Reg from Gloustershire, the UK, served and survived in the First World War, which is as close as any family member has got to seeing action in a war zone.My novel is a confabulation of accurate details relating to what an Allied prisoner of war might experience in Germany and science fiction notions more closely related to Bob Lazar’s accounts of retro-engineered spacecraft. My story begins in 1944, Australian Flight Lieutenant Gordon 'Gordie' Fletcher boarded his Avro Lancaster for a routine bombing mission that ended in the crew bailing out into enemy territory. Fletcher eventually found himself in a top-secret facility. The Germans considered him a promising test subject for their experimental program, the source of the Haunebu, a saucer-shaped craft powered by electromagnetic fields and anti-gravity technology.In this speculative history, the Haunebu carried the Nazis to the Moon in 1944, long before Apollo. When the war ended the following year, Allied forces began recruiting German scientists for research programs through Operation Paperclip. Fletcher eventually returned to Australia and settled in South Australia where he flew Red Cross missions, while the war’s unsettling moral compromises lingered in his mind.
