Synopsis
Were you or your ancestors’ victims of Hitler’s war?
Joe and Mike returned from WWI to Tyneside at the end of 1918, alive but walking skeletons. They recover from their life-threatening ordeals with the support of their families and readjust to a radically changed world. However, before long, the fallout from such an expensive war took its toll on their community. The reparations demanded from Germany affected the home front. The Great Depression, profound closures, and unemployment bite, devastating the Industrial Northeast. Joe’s family moved to the south London area for the promise of better prospects. However, before long, they found themselves in a new war during the Blitz, resulting in catastrophic numbers of dead, wounded and homeless around them. How will the Rutherfords survive these crises?
Allied Canadian forces joined WWII, and vast numbers of troops arrived to defend the British Islands before being sent to fight the Nazis on the continent. Gunner-driver George forges lasting friendships among his fellow Canadians and the British hosts, meeting Joe’s youngest daughter, Dolly, by accident. They soon marry during one of his leaves and have a baby boy. Then, George is dispatched to the Mediterranean to participate in the Italian Campaign. While in Italy, George frets about his new family. Will his new family survive the Nazi vengeance rocket onslaught on London and Croydon? Will the Allied soldiers survive their daily ordeals on the European battlefields and rejoin their families?
This third book of The Rutherford Chronicles tells the frightening personal stories of the people of England and the brave Allied soldiers fighting to defeat Hitler and end the war in Europe. Other personalities include Winston Churchill, General Albert Kesselring, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Bernard Montgomery, General George S. Patton and a murdered Canadian Bombardier.
About the Author
MichaelBergen was born in England and grew up in Canada, though he has lived in Europeand South Africa for most of his adult life, and it was here that The Rutherford Chronicles first sprangto life.
Historyhas always been Michael's passion. Not surprisingly, it led to an explorationof his own fascinating family heritage. Years of extensive research culminatedin his writing The Rutherford Chronicles, a series of four books basedon his ancestors' lives, their friends and their families and the broader worldin the turbulent years of the 20th century.
The Rutherford Chronicles follow the lives of ordinary people thrust intoextraordinary circumstances. The series evocatively depicts how they confront eventscontrolled by their much better known and more powerful contemporaries on allsides of the conflicts, many of whom are referenced within the books' pages. Thesewell researched historic references reveal the facts behind the fiction, whileMichael's creativity and skill transmute these facts and his personal heritageinto exciting novels.
Book one, Empire Discovered, beginsduring the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa and continues into BritishIndia.
Book two, Empire and War, takes place inthe trenches and German POW camps in WWI.
Book three, Empire and Tyranny, is thestory of a soldier of the Canadian Artillery during WWII and his encounterswith the Rutherford family.
The last book, Empires Lost, followsevents during the Cold War, based on Michael's own experiences during the lateryears of the 20th century. As such, it completes a sweeping historicaltableau of love, life and adventure in tumultuous times.
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