G437 Book Review of The Summer of Long Knives by Jim Snowden
Name of Book: The Summer of Long Knives Author: Jim Snowden ISBN: 978-1-620115-153-2 Publisher: booktrope Type of book: 1936, murder, mystery, crime, marginalized group, Nazis, police, Jews, protection, solving the crime, scapegoating, Germany, non-Jewish citizens' points of view, rape Year it was published: 2014 Summary: In the summer of 1936, the racial and political climate in Munich are growing tense, and Kommisar Rolf Wundt and his wife Klara are increasingly desperate to leave Nazi Germany while they still can. But when a member of the League of German Girls is found brutally murdered and posed in the yard of a dilapidated farmhouse, Rolf's supervisor declares that they can't leave until he's solved the case. Rolf's investigation leads him from the depths of the underground Communist movement to the heights of Germany's elite Nazi society, exposing the cracks in Germany's so-called unified society as well as the unspoken tensions in...