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The Night Before Morning
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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The Night Before Morning
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Summary
June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation, and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack.
In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the course of history. The journal he discovers, by a young soldier, David Erskine, records an extraordinary story.
When the Allies drive the Germans out of France and victory seems imminent, Erskine is in Antwerp, where he witnesses a world-changing reversal of fortune. From a high vantage point, he watches a huge mushroom cloud rise over London: an atomic bomb has been detonated by the Germans in a last desperate roll of the dice.
Captor becomes captive and Erskine is held as a POW in his own land. As the brutal grip of the occupying forces tightens, he is determined to join the resistance. A daring escape leads him and his fiancee Katie on a breathless chase to the university town of St. Andrews, where the Germans have established a secret research laboratory. When it becomes clear what its purpose is, David, Katie, and their small, trusted band must adopt a desperate and audacious plan to thwart Nazi domination....
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- The Curator
- 02-03-22
Runs out of steam
This counter-history novel starts well enough with the Nazis dropping a nuclear bomb on London (if you see what I mean). It then moves to Scotland where there are nuclear scientists and a weekend house! To be honest, after that it goes off the boil a bit and just fizzles out at the end. There are lots of horrific killings but the most startling one is almost glossed over like the author was running out of memory on their laptop. Now, we do also need to talk about the narrator. He sounds slightly Australian when doing an English voice and Irish (I mean really Irish like that great uncle who comes to weddings and tells stories of people you’ve never known whilst starting every sentence with ‘Look it now…’. ) when he’s supposed to be from the Borders. I can’t imagine what a German would think of his attempt at that!
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