War Novel Depicts Depravity of Nazi Germany

A historical fiction book offers a glimpse into Nazi torture and brutality.

Spring City, Pennsylvania – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, October 4, 2017

The war novel shows what wars do the human beings.

Anyone who has read Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières will also love Thomas W. Becker’s The Road At St. Liseau: A Novel of Espionage in World War II (iUniverse, 2015), a romantic spy thriller that brings the horrors of the Second World War vividly to life.

Set in Nazi-occupied France, The Road At St. Liseau explores themes that recur in most war stories: war, suffering, hate, and inhumanity. The novel carries a graphic and unnerving description of Nazi brutality as evident in the Germans’ torture of Captain Robert Marsden, an American bombardier and one of the two main characters of the story (the other is Lisa Jardin, a nurse and member of the French Resistance who later becomes his wife).

While on an espionage mission, the Germans capture Robert and subject him to their brutality. In a horrific torture scene, Robert is beaten and tortured with knives, cigarettes, and ropes. He sustains broken bones, cigarette burns and open knife slashes on his skin and is hanged naked and unconscious. He barely survives the torture his captors inflict on him.

Robert’s torture, however, is not the only thing that should shock readers of The Road At St. Liseau. There are gritty accounts of rape and degradation, based on documented events that provide an insider’s look at wartime reality and a testament to the depravity of Nazi Germany.

Becker’s The Road At St. Liseau: A Novel of Espionage in World War II will be displayed at the upcoming 2017 Frankfurt International Book Fair on October 11-15 in Frankfurt, Germany.

For more information about the book, readers should visit the author’s website at http://thomaswbecker.com/

Copies of the books are available at Amazon and iUniverse.

The Road At St. Liseau: A Novel of Espionage in World War II
Written by: Thomas W. Becker
Published by: iUniverse
Published date: June 5, 2015
Paperback price: $14.95

About the author

Thomas W. Becker is a teacher, author, and photojournalist who travelled throughout the world delivering presentations and gathering material for fourteen books and more than three hundred published articles. He lives in Spring City, Pennsylvania, where he continues to write and deliver public talks on technology.