
The Slow March of Light
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Stephen Graybill
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Christa Lewis
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By:
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Heather B. Moore
About this listen
A riveting and emotionally gripping novel of an American soldier working as a spy in Soviet-occupied East Germany and a West German woman secretly helping her countrymen escape from behind the Berlin Wall
In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Luisa Voigt lives in West Berlin, but her grandmother lives across the border and is now trapped inside the newly isolated communist country of East Germany. Desperate to rescue her grandmother and aware of the many others whose families have been divided, Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help bring others through a makeshift underground tunnel to West Germany. Their work is dangerous, and not everyone will successfully escape or live to see freedom.
Bob Inama was an outstanding university student with plans to attend law school when he is drafted into the US Army. Stationed in West Germany, he is glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend time together, they form a close connection. But when Bob receives classified orders to leave for undercover work immediately, he does not get the chance to say good-bye.
With a fake identity, Bob’s special assignment is to be a spy embedded in East Germany. His undercover job will give him access to government sites to map out strategic military targets. But Soviet and East German spies, the secret police, and Stasi informants are everywhere, and eventually Bob is caught and sent to a brutal East German prison. Interrogated and tortured daily, Bob clings to any hope he can find - from the sunlight that marches across the wall of his prison, to the one guard who secretly treats him with kindness, to the thought of one day seeing Luisa again.
Author Heather B. Moore masterfully alternates the stories of Bob and Luisa, capturing the human drama unique to Cold War Germany as well as the courage and the resilience of the human spirit.
©2021 Heather B. Moore (P)2021 Blackstone PublishingFantastic!
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Its hard to understand why some people need to do this! It's either to embellish a story that lacks something or, to enhance the story and give it more substance. Either way you begin to mix the fact with the fiction. Personally, I find that issue troublesome.
However in this particular case it doesn't detract from a very well written story.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Fact & Fiction
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Loved it!
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The author managed to create a good book around the limitations she faced in terms of either Bob's own lack of introspection, or his lack of fully sharing his personal insight with Moore.
I especially found it really interesting to hear about the post WW2 era in Germany, particularly Berlin. I don't really know too much about the Cold War. You don't really hear too much about this time in German history - all the books or movies etc.. choosing to focus on the preceding World War.
The Slow March of Light
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Engaging, insightful and inspiring.
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beautiful trueish story
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Disappointing
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humanity in the darkest hours
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Inspired
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Incredible book
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