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Shvoong Home>Books>Novels & Novellas>London Refrain Review

London Refrain

Book Review   by:livetruths     Original Author: Bodie and Brock Thoene
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It was Hitler's will-power and the fear he ignited in other people's minds which made him successful in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Hitler fearlessly manoeuvred his army into the western side of Poland on the 1st of September,1939 with the strong belief that Mr. Chamberlain, British PM does not have the courage to resist the German invasion. With the agreement signed by Hitler with Stalin, the Soviet military stepped into the eastern side of Poland on september 17th.

Many had arrived at the British Embassy in Warsaw to flee the country before anything bad happened. But only those with British passports were being allowed. Eva Weitzman, a Jewish pole, was one of them praying for a miracle. After sometime a girl came to Eva and gave her a British passport asking her to take it. The girl was a Jewess named rachel, daughter of Rabbi Aaron Lubetkin. The passport was a forged one sent to her by John Murphy, a vehement anti-Nazi chief of TENS news agency. She did not want to leave the country without her parents and her 3 brothers. Eva escaped the wrath of Hitler to England to Murphy.On her way she met an enthusiastic American photographer, Mac Mcgrath who tried to cover the whole story of the outbreak of the war,believing that if he told the truth, the world would rise up and put an end to Hitler’s evil plans.

Kevin Miller and the other Irish recruits of the Reich had spread out to the different parts of England to sabotage and assassinate politicians, members of Western press, Christian clergy, military men, Jews and their families. Winston Churchill and John Murphy were among the prime ones of their list. Therefore bodyguards were set for them and their families. Even though England and France declared war against Germany on September 3rd, Germanycontinued to strafe Poland and captured warsaw on september 27th. The preparations for war were done to defend the cities of Britain and France with compulsory blackouts and movement of women and children to safer places like Wales. The British army was moved to French frontiers to protect theMaginot line. Journalists and military men flocked into lodges in the war frontiers.

The SS had started massacring Jews as soon as the Polish army fell into the hands of the Germans. The savage act of the SS made even some of the german majors like Horst von Bockman to protest the ruthless execution of the women and children particularly. Such protests were trampled by the fierce threats against their families. Several kind Germans like the wife of Horst, Katrina housed dozens of small children who were refugees and a Jewish family in the name of looking after her horses. The SS imposed harsh laws on the Jews like they shouldn’t go out of their houses without wearing an yellow band on their hands so that they could be easily recognized and if one person in a family was caught for something, the whole family would be arrested. The soldiers silently sread messages about impending raids and forced the people mentally to flee in the night which usually led to their capture. Lubetkin family was also caught by the SS and were brought to a hall were hundreds of other Jews were present who were to be moved later by train to another place.

The agents from England and France spilled their lives in the hands of Gestapo on their missions to sabotage the Nazi leadership. The modern theories of warfare which were devised in France and Britain and were neglected in those countries were greatly regarded in Germany like the theory put up by a French colonel named de Gaulle which is the best work on the use of motorized units in modern warfare.

Elisa, Murphy’s wife, and Lori, her friend, with Eva moved to Wales following the murder of Pastor Ibsen, father of Lori, in a Nazi jail, to Wales were Lori’s mother was staying. Two murder attempts by the Nazi agents followed them on their way to and at Wales but had narrow escapes with God’s grace. Jacob, Lori’s husband, was in Poland while Germany invaded it. He escaped it with Alfie and a dozen others uder the leadership of Samuel Orde on a boat but were caught at someplace by the Ukrainians. Later they were freed by the members of a Jewish organization on their work. Then Orde and his team drove their boat out to the Medittarranean going past English and German ships without being noticed to reach the promised land. The baby Yacov in Lubetkin family was rescued by a couple from being killed by the SS before they left on train through a planned drama and the child was taken to Father Kopecky, a Catholic priest who was a friend of Aaron. While Mac is on the French frontiers he comes to know about his love for Eva has been recognized by her through Murphy who went to him for covering the story about the upcoming war.

The book ends with a question mark about what is going to happen after this. The answer to this question mark is ‘PARIS ENCORE’ [ZION COVENANT-8].

Published: July 11, 2012   
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