The Knowing Room: Der Wissende Raum (Paperback or Softback)

Sequel and conclusion to the story 'The Magic Room' about three people who find refuge in a partially destroyed building in Berlin during the last days of WWII.

The soldier, Dieter Falke, the girl Adriane Gerst and the Hitler youth boy Hauke Kluge have lost everything and everybody in their lives. They only have each other. They plan to escape together to get away from the Russians who now have the city and to reach the American occupied part of Germany.

In a last-minute skirmish the boy is killed. Dieter and Adriane escape and eventually reach the American zone.

'The Knowing Room' finds the boy alive in a Russian Field Hospital. The Russians are searching for scientists from the German rocket program and they think the boy may have some information they need. When he is well he is taken under the wing of the Russian area commander.

Eventually, he is listed as a war orphan. Through guile and tenacity, he finds his way to Dieter and Adriane who are now living on a farm near Willingen.

He befriends a local girl and together they discover some terrible truth about two men working on a nearby farm. He is caught up in a local dilemma concerning the activities of these two men as operatives at Auschwitz.

What do you do with war criminals with a history of such terrible crimes?

After a life in advertising and journalism, along with photography, art, cartooning, family and being a part-time blues guitarist Neil Stanners finally found time to write a book. He enjoyed it so much he decided to write another. Then another. He is now working on others and wishes he'd started sooner. Neil Stanners has lived and worked in Europe but these days resides in his home town of Sydney. His books are very observational. He tells you of people and their situations. Neil Stanners books are historically accurate. Not always comfortable but fellow humans you can relate to and understand. People you want to know. As one reviewer says " He has ..... imagination and heart that is rarely found. There is a simple, yet stark realism ........"