BRANDT A group of friends in Hitler's Germany defy the diktats of the Führer in ways that put their young lives in gravest danger. Werner, sent to a reformatory for his "anti-state attitude", is drafted into the German army, deserts during the invasion of Poland, and joins the Polish Underground. Bram emigrates to Paris with his Jewish family and enlists in the French Resistance. Rona, after her husband is murdered in London, follows Werner to Warsaw and risks her life to smuggle Jewish children out of the inhuman ghetto. Erich and his Polish wife Roksana rescue a young Jewish Communist from certain death in Warsaw and suffer the terrible consequences: hard labour in separate concentration camps. BRANDT is a seamless weave of history and fiction, the fabric of a dark chapter of the story of Europe, a tapestry of lives lived under the barbaric regime of Hitler's National Socialism. The characters in this unsparing novel are the strands woven into a drama of diverse people in Germany, Poland, France, and England. Their story celebrates the unquenchable spirit to survive the horror and to conquer the evil of a brutal tyranny. Praise for Ron Duffy's novels Duffy has a talent for portraying human conflict in its most multi-dimensional form. BC BookWorld, Winter 2012, reviewing The Unquiet Land It is an honour and pleasure to read such exceptional writing. Ben Nuttall-Smith, author, reviewing In Turbulent Times A gifted writer and storyteller. Whistler Independent Book awards, 2016, reviewing O'Hanlon
About the Author: ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Ron Duffy spent three years cycling round Europe, before going to Queen's University in Belfast to study geography. As a student he became involved in the activism that led to the start of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland in 1969, experience that he wrote about in The Ulster Trilogy (The Unquiet Land, In Turbulent Times, A Further Shore, now available in one volume). In 1969 he emigrated to Canada, took an MSc in biogeography at the University of Calgary, and studied for his PhD at McGill University in Montreal. There he began a long career as a university lecturer in geography, before turning to full-time creative writing. His novel Crossed Lives received an Honourable Mention at the New York Book Festival in 2012. At the Whistler Book Festival (British Columbia) in 2016 Crossed Lives was long-listed for a Whistler Independent Book Award and his Irish historical novel O'Hanlon received an Honourable Mention. He was the only author from across Canada to be given two nominations at the Festival. Meanwhile he continues his journalism by writing regularly for Lower Island News, published in Victoria, British Columbia. He and his Canadian wife, Joanne, have two sons and now live in Vancouver, British Columbia, See www.ronduffywriting.com and www.facebook.com/RonDuffyWriting