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My Brother the Enemy: Germany at War (The Love and War Series) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Your nation is at war. But the real enemy is the brother at your side.

Short, heart-wrenching historical fiction with a heart-stopping denouement.

1936 – Exiled by the Nazi regime for their father’s beliefs, Peter’s love for his brother is slowly eroded as Martin proves himself to be ruthless and manipulative. When Monika comes into their young lives, their mutual jealousies heighten and threaten to tear them apart.

1941 – A childhood accident saves Peter from active service. His brother, posted to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, isn’t so lucky.

1945 – Berlin is torn apart by Allied bombs. Amid the carnage and death that descends over the city, Martin returns from Russia – battered and embittered. The twins’ seething bitterness and their shared love for Monika finally explodes with devastating consequences.

My Brother the Enemy is a story of jealousy, sibling rivalry and betrayal, and a desperate bid for freedom, set against a backdrop of Nazi oppression and war.

Part of The Love and War Series, novels set during the 20th century's darkest years. Historical fiction with heart and drama. Can be read in any order.

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2 gennaio 2014
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Rupert Colley was born one Christmas Day, which means, as a child, he lost out on presents. Nonetheless, looking back on it, he lived a childhood with a "silver spoon in my mouth" - brought up in a rambling manor house in the beautiful Devon countryside. It's been downhill ever since. He was a librarian for a long time, a noble profession. Then he started a series called History In An Hour, "history for busy people", which he sold to HarperCollins UK. Rupert now lives in London with his wife, two children and dog (a fluffy cockapoo) and writes historical fiction, mainly 20th century war and misery. Historical fiction with heart.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B5W87VG
Editore ‏ : ‎ rupertcolley.com (2 gennaio 2014)
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My Brother the Enemy

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 26 agosto 2013

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Turbulent historical setting? Check. Vivid descriptions? Check. Realistic and likeable central character? Check. Page-turning excitement? Check. Heart-stopping denouement? Check. Passion, heroism, betrayal? Check, check, and check.

It all adds up: My Brother the Enemy is an excellent work of historical fiction from Rupert Colley (his first written, my second read), this one set in Hungary, beginning a few years post-WWII and moving through the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The book follows a set of Jewish twins, Janos and Lukacs, who have managed to escape from the Nazis during the war only to be forced afterwards by the communists to relocate to an impoverished little village where they attend a state-run school and watch their once-prosperous father drink himself into oblivion and inebriated rages. A few years later they manage to attend university in Budapest where they take an active role in the revolution.

Janos and Lukacs may be identical twins but their strikingly different personalities and love for the same woman create the book's central tension and keeps those pages turning throughout the novel's vivid historical settings. However, just occasionally, the verisimilitude of those settings cracks when Colley lets slip a Britishism or two. Words and phrases such as "buggered" "sod off" "bloody liar" " the f-ing lot of them" "things were a-changing" (OK, that last one is as American as Bob Dylan), might have been replaced by more generic terms or even possibly Hungarian words with translations somehow neatly tucked nearby.

But this is just an occasional issue. For 99 percent of My Brother the Enemy I nearly believed I was closely observing the conflicted lives of two brothers as they experience the dreary oppression of post-war communist Hungary and the heady thrill of its mid-century revolution.

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Ms Sinead Kelly

Superbly written, acutely observed

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 29 aprile 2013

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"The sky was grey as lead. With cold fingers wrapped round their rifles, the twins sheltered behind a burnt-out Soviet tank at the edge of the square, Monika crouched between them. Janos surveyed the scene - the city square a jungle of wreckage: fields of broken glass, torn up paving stones, trailing cables, uprooted tramlines. Among the chaos, the occasional corpse - Russian or Hungarian, their bodies twisted and grotesque. Monika, her face lined with dirt, looked at him. Janos tried to smile and found himself turning away."

So opens 'My Brother the Enemy', a short historical novella set in 1950s Soviet-occupied Hungary. It describes the carnage witnessed by twenty-year-old twin brothers, Janos and Lukacs, and their childhood friend, Monika, as the people of Hungary revolt against the oppression of Soviet rule. How did these young people get here? What atrocities have they witnessed along the way? And what horrors lie in store?

With a narrative which skips deftly back and forth in time, 'My Brother the Enemy' follows Lukacs and Janos - fraternal twins who are physically identical yet poles apart in temperament and personality - as they struggle to find their way in a cruel and unforgiving world which is characterized by violence, poverty, prejudice and injustice. It is also a story of sibling rivalry, seething jealousies, divided loyalties, human frailty and remarkable bravery. This is a superbly written and acutely observed book, with well-rounded characters and convincing dialogue, while the tension and pace are perfectly judged. At around 100 pages, the story is a short one - but for all its brevity, it certainly packs a considerable punch.

'My Brother the Enemy' is Rupert Colley's first fictional outing, having already written ten non-fiction titles for his highly successful 'History In An Hour' series, which is now published by HarperCollins. If this first offering is anything to go by, we can expect some very good things from this author in the future.

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Interesting story in an interesting time of history.

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Braeburn

Compelling personal drama set against a rich historical backdrop

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 marzo 2013

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Set in 1950's Soviet occupied Hungary, My Brother the Enemy is a short but compelling historical novella from author Rupert Colley. Weaving backwards and forwards through time, the narrative focuses on a tale of brotherly rivalry sparked by love and marred by the violent social and political upheaval besetting the country at the time.

Short at around 100 pages, the book is easy to read, making it a prefect for commuters or those who prefer their fiction in easily digestible chunks. The prose is clean, uncomplicated and narrative driven, suiting the pace of the story. That said the characters could perhaps have done with a little fleshing out as the main protagonists in particular seem a little one-tone in places. The story is well paced however, and ultimately believable. Colley, the founder and editor of the celebrated HarperCollins series History in an Hour, obviously has a rich and detailed command of history at his disposal and this adds to My Brother the Enemy's realism, endowing the tale with a sense of epic grandeur despite its brevity.

Those looking for short, engaging historical fiction for their Kindle need look no further than here. My Brother the Enemy highlights Rupert Colley as an author to watch.

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Robert Krueger

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Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 luglio 2014

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This is the story of the twins, Janos and Lukacs, and Monika told against the background of the Soviet controlled Hungarian totalitarian government. The story opens with the uprising of the Hungarian people against Soviet rule. We are first introduced to the twins and Monika crouching behind a burnt-out Soviet tank surveying the war-torn city square, occasional bodies silent in death, people taking revenge against the brutal Hungarian police; described in raw reality.

Then, the novel takes the reader back in time to when the three were youngsters. It follows them through their formative years, the development of their characters; and it traces life in their rural village, which like all of Hungary is under Communist control. There are all shades of villiagers: peasants and Communist lackeys. Finally, there is the arrival of the ill-fated revolution.

The twins and Monika are compelling characters, vividly portrayed. The twins are opposites, the difference -- nearly -- between dark and light. All the players come alive on the pages of the novel. Descriptions are like pictures. We see life in rural Hungary both in its routines and under the thumb of the Soviets and the Communist Hungarian government.

Although this short novel is primarily about brotherly rivalry (serious in nature), personalities, and relationships, I would have liked to see more about the uprising itself and the factors leading to it. This is not a criticism: what is presented gives a clear picture and is germane to the story.

This is an enjoyable and important novel. Reviewed by the author of The Children's Story, About Good and Evil.

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