In conversation with Chad Leinaweaver; 10:00 – 10:50 am, Morristown & Morris Township Library
Alan A. Winter
Alan A. Winter was born in Newark, New Jersey, where he attended both Weequahic and Livingston High Schools. He received a B.A. in history from Rutgers and earned professional degrees from both New York University and Columbia, where he also served as an assistant professor. Winter previously published four novels, plus coauthored Wolf and Sins of the Fathers—the first two historical novels in this trilogy—with Herbert J. Stern. His screenplay, Polly, received an honorable mention at the Austin Film Festival. Savior’s Day was a Kirkus Best Book Selection of 2013. Winter is on the faculty of Long Island University and the Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Virginia Commonwealth. He lives in New Jersey with his wife. Together, they have five children and eight grandchildren.
MFOB featured book: When Ashes Cried
When Ashes Cried completes the trilogy of an amnesiac German soldier, Friedrich Richard, whose story begins in Wolf, when he is sent to Pasewalk Hospital for treatment to restore his lost memory. There, he befriends the patient in the next bed: Adolf Hitler. Friedrich becomes the readers’ eyes and ears as Hitler and his inner circle rise to power. In Sins of the Fathers, we witness how Germany spirals into a black hole of terror as it expels its Jews and prepares for war. Friedrich and top-level German military leaders are set to launch a coup d’état when Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich to appease Hitler. Chamberlain unwittingly saves Hitler’s life and sows the seeds for World War II.
In this third volume, When Ashes Cried, Kristallnacht is unleashed to force Germany’s remaining Jews to leave. At the same time Hitler moves to conquer Europe and Russia, he secretly negotiates with the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees in London to accept Germany’s remaining Jews . . . for a stiff price. Through Friedrich, the reader learns of Stalin’s efforts to thwart Hitler’s adventurism, how the T-4 program has greater implications than euthanizing only the weak, how Hitler creates a false flag to initiate World War II, and how Friedrich’s counsel influences the war’s outcome . . . for the Allies.
