Our Fathers' War

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This astonishing novel braids the stories of people on both sides of World War Two. At a house party beside Georgian Bay, on the eve of war, Victoria Treloar of London is attracted to poet Grani Giovanelli from Toronto. The next day, at a castle in Germany, Clara Dunsmuir of New Brunswick marries her fiance Peter von Matternich, thus barely escaping internment as an enemy alien. Throughout the war, Clara and her best friend Tatiana Miloslovsky secretly help Tati's husband Klaus to save refugees, then carry out the bomb attack on Hitler in 1944. Grant Giovanelli fights U-boats in the North Atlantic, his brother Jack parachutes on a commando mission into occupied France. Vivid battle scenes interlock with the love stories, while Hitler, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevet plot their separate wars that ruin the world.