The 3 best books by the Nazism expert Ben Pastor

The thematic specialization acquires in the narrative of Ben Pastor a very remarkable point of deepening. Either the Third Reich as the setting to delve into interiorities and intrahistories extended during various deliveries thanks to its researcher Martín Bora; or also ancient rome where to accompany a singular Elio Sparziano to rediscover his world through series.

Because other writers of historical novels serials (of course Ben has an added noir point) advance in tune with historical developments while Ben bets everything instantly, on the exhaustive contemplation of the moment. Always miraculously maintaining the action, Ben Pastor makes each time visited its own because it concentrates the moments in its narrative cocktail that makes the historical fiction interesting absolutely mimetic points of view for the reader.

So when you get ready to start the work of Ben Pastor Get ready for a sensation of adventure with the weight of the time of the same life passed in dark stages or remote splendors, where always arise, in one way or another, suspense and fascinating moments.

Top 3 recommended novels of Ben Pastor

Lumen

The initial work with which the overwhelming development of a Martin Bora takes off (do not confuse by phonetic analogy, time and context with Martin Bormann) immersed in the black days of Nazism and its war.

Poland, winter of 1939, the country suffers the occupation of Nazi Germany. Mother Kazimierza, abbess of a Krakow convent, is found shot to death in the cloister. An untimely death that can have serious consequences given his great popularity among Poles for his prophetic gifts.

The case is taken over by Captain Martin Bora, of the German military intelligence service, who is joined in the investigations by Father John Malecki, a Chicago Jesuit of Polish origin, sent by the Vatican to investigate the miracles of Mother Kazimierza . A difficult relationship is established between the two in which the spirit of collaboration and antagonism intersect.

Who could Mother Kazimierza's prophecies bother? Did they affect the future of the Reich? Did you support the Polish resistance? What role does the actress Ewa Kowalska play in the case, a woman who does not leave a Bora detached at such moments from his wife indifferent?

Faced with the horror and murderous behavior of his comrades in arms, Captain Bora is torn between a sense of duty and strong ethical convictions. Which leads him to appreciate the not always easy discussions with Father Malecki about good and evil. Political intrigue, psychological thriller and religious enigmas come together in "Lumen," a new adventure by Captain Martin Bora in the hectic years of World War II.

Lumen

Kaputt Mundi

Third part of the saga. The beginning of the end is approaching for a Nazi regime that had the world in its grip. But the ruins of the world left as a legacy seem like the worst of places. Everything to be redone and so much fear to be cured... And this is the year 1944 and the outcome still remains. Meanwhile our Martin Bora continues doing his thing…

For four months now, German troops have occupied Rome, the capital of their Italian ally, which in times of its greatest splendor, in antiquity, was called "caput mundi", "head of the world." There is the melancholic and distinguished commander of the Wehrmacht Martin Bora, who is commissioned to investigate the suicide of a young and crazy secretary of the Reich embassy.

With the help of police inspector Sandro Guidi and in a city as beautiful as it is sad, where the massacres of resisters are mixed with a world from which luxury and opulence refuse to disappear, Bora will make his way through obstacles and false appearances until you get all the answers.

Kaputt Mundi

Lead sky

The ninth part of a legendary series. A plot at the height of World War II. Among the strategic decisions that would change the world, small acts of espionage would surreptitiously underlie many of the decisions transferred to the history books. This is what "Sky of Lead" is about, the war under the war.

Ukraine 1943, the armies of the Third Reich prepare a major offensive that can change the course of the war. Commander Martin Bora, an officer of the German intelligence service, is tasked with interrogating the Russian general Platonov, who has been taken prisoner, but is unable to extract any valuable information from him. His attitude changes when his friend Khan Tibyetskji, a former glory of the Soviet Revolution, leaves the Red Army and surrenders to the Germans.

But in less than twenty-four hours, both Soviet officers are found dead. The official German report maintains that the first died naturally and the second committed suicide; while Stalinist propaganda claims to have executed them as deserters. Bora is not convinced by any version and decides to find out what these deaths hide. An investigation that will take you down paths as uncertain and dangerous as those of a mysterious nearby forest in which mysterious disappearances take place.

Lead sky
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