Not from the ministry of defense
Nor military obituaries in the tagesblatt
Not by memo, mail, or telegraph
Nor dolorous messenger
in fieldmouse grey and gold braid
Nothing but black silence from the east.
No word under the iron skies of July
No help as the August harvest rots in the fields
No news as October chokes the fetid brook
No closure, except December's winter fingers
Eight years later, a man from the east.
Wandering fields at dusk
Wading shallow brooks
Bedding in abandoned barns
Returning to a village at the edge of the Odenwald
He recounts a story.
An army surrounded
A battalion attacked
A comrade destroyed
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Fifth Book of the Southern Swallow Series. Nan Ya and his crew take a final adventure into a mythical Chinese universe and become entangled in court intrigue.
Ireland 1947. Seven weeks of relentless snow. Guard Eamon Foley is searching for a missing child.
At Toby Appleyard’s farm, he discovers the kitchen littered with dead cats. And the skeletal remains of a woman. Upstairs, Toby is dead in his bed.
Marooned is the 1860's saga of Justin Radcliff, a young American, who is beaten and thrown overboard by his evil twin brother, Edward.
Kolya, a handsome Black man and new leader of the transplanted Zulu tribe there, finds Justin caught in hi