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[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Kindle Daily Deals (1 title) -- exp 05 Apr


$7.99 -- The Paris Architect -- Charles Belfoure/ Mark Bramhall --> 11.2 hrs/ R-4.5 --> historical

I challenge some information stated in the blurb. It says, "Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews."

Although I'm only a casual student of the Holocaust, I had never heard that charge against most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris. I did a quick search and found this from an organization called HEART (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team): "very few Jews who possessed French citizenship fell into the Germans net. The French police refused to arrest them. When the SD attempted to organise street pressgangs, the French Jews found friends to hide them.(http://www.holocaustresearchproject....renchjews.html).

Yes, it is an historical novel. But historical novels are supposed to be based upon facts. But, that assertion appears to be contrary to the facts.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I challenge some information stated in the blurb. It says, "Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews."

Although I'm only a casual student of the Holocaust, I had never heard that charge against most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris. I did a quick search and found this from an organization called HEART (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team): "very few Jews who possessed French citizenship fell into the Germans net. The French police refused to arrest them. When the SD attempted to organise street pressgangs, the French Jews found friends to hide them.(http://www.holocaustresearchproject....renchjews.html).

Yes, it is an historical novel. But historical novels are supposed to be based upon facts. But, that assertion appears to be contrary to the facts.

Quasi-historical???

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Quasi-historical???

Pseudo-historical seems to be more fitting.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Although I'm only a casual student of the Holocaust, I had never heard that charge against most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris. I did a quick search and found this from an organization called HEART (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team).

I find this organization dubious on the face of it.

H.E.A.R.T research and material is contributed from a group of independent Holocaust researchers who devote their spare time to research for the production of this website and other forms of related publications, such as leaflets and books.

So, people with no academic standing who are interested in the Holocaust as a hobby provide the material? It takes more than that to convince me.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by skinmaan

Okay, this title should have been the one to come out for April Fool's Day. Even more madcap than the encyclopedia, I give you a pre-order of Larry Correia's "The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent." Due to be released May 24, you can get it for free for now here.

I couldn't make this stuff up, folks, even if I tried. If you're interested, and can stop laughing long enough to hold the mouse steady, don't delay.

Thanks - added to OP and Free Audible list

Free Audible Titles

FREE -- Adventures of Tom Stranger -- Larry Correia/ Adam Baldwin --> 2.1 hrs/ R-na --> sci-fi

See publisher's summary above.
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[skinmaan]

Downpour has a free short to celebrate the opening of the baseball season. If you're interested in "Love and Death in the Moose League" by Ryan W. Bradley, you can get it free here for the next week.

From the collection Nothing but the Dead and Dying

During his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone—Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he’s an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not even Patterson himself, has any idea what the hell he’s doing toeing the rubber in Alaska’s Moose League. But when Jennifer Tisch of the Anchorage Daily News goes looking for a story, she soon learns there’s much more to the tough-talking, hard-drinking Patterson than meets the eye.

Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I challenge some information stated in the blurb. It says, "Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews."

Although I'm only a casual student of the Holocaust, I had never heard that charge against most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris. I did a quick search and found this from an organization called HEART (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team): "very few Jews who possessed French citizenship fell into the Germans net. The French police refused to arrest them. When the SD attempted to organise street pressgangs, the French Jews found friends to hide them.(http://www.holocaustresearchproject....renchjews.html).

Yes, it is an historical novel. But historical novels are supposed to be based upon facts. But, that assertion appears to be contrary to the facts.

For one thing, the blurb you quote says "Jews"; the HEART quote refers to "Jews who possessed French citizenship"--these are not the same thing.

I am certainly not a historian of the Holocaust, but I would point to the mass arrest of Jews in Paris in 1942, known as the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, in which the French police acted at the direction of the Nazi regime. More than 13,000 Jews were arrested, including children, and shipped to extermination camps. The French government apologized for its complicity in 1995. See, for example, the NY Times story on the 70th anniversary of the roundup.

To bring this back to books, last year I listened to the novel Sarah's Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay, in which the young girl of the title and her family are among the Jews arrested during the roundup.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Catlady

For one thing, the blurb you quote says "Jews"; the HEART quote refers to "Jews who possessed French citizenship"--these are not the same thing.

I am certainly not a historian of the Holocaust, but I would point to the mass arrest of Jews in Paris in 1942, known as the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, in which the French police acted at the direction of the Nazi regime. More than 13,000 Jews were arrested, including children, and shipped to extermination camps. The French government apologized for its complicity in 1995. See, for example, the NY Times story on the 70th anniversary of the roundup.

To bring this back to books, last year I listened to the novel Sarah's Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay, in which the young girl of the title and her family are among the Jews arrested during the roundup.

Well, this is not the forum for discussing or debating it. Frankly, I don't have much interest in discussing or debating it, either. And it's not that I'm afraid that I couldn't produce enough evidence to prove it.

I would find it interesting to discuss more the nature of historical novels, though--how much should be historical, what part of it should be historical, etc. This forum isn't the place for that, either, unfortunately.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Well, this is not the forum for discussing or debating it. Frankly, I don't have much interest in discussing or debating it, either. And it's not that I'm afraid that I couldn't produce enough evidence to prove it.

I would find it interesting to discuss more the nature of historical novels, though--how much should be historical, what part of it should be historical, etc. This forum isn't the place for that, either, unfortunately.

Correct - the best forum to take it to would be General Discussions, since this topic (historical novels) isn't unique to audiobooks.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Correct - the best forum to take it to would be General Discussions, since this topic (historical novels) isn't unique to audiobooks.

Am I ready to be a moderator now?

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Rental of the Week -- exp 11 Apr

$1.99 -- Lovecraft Country -- Matt Ruff/ Kevin Kenerly --> 12.2 hrs/ R-4.5 --> historical fantasy

Whispersync: the Audible book is $4.49, if you own or borrow the Kindle ebook ($11.99)

Critically acclaimed cult novelist Matt Ruff makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his father, Montrose, goes missing, twenty-two-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend, Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’ ancestors—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his clan’s destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Am I ready to be a moderator now?

...here's a test for you. I just posted another historical novel, what do you do?

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Deal of the Week -- exp 11 Apr

$5.95 -- Dynasty: House of Caesar -- Tom Holland/ Derek Perkins --> 16.1 hrs/ R-4.5 --> history

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

Whispersync: no deals available

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.

Dynasty continues Rubicon’s story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman emperors. It’s a colorful story of rule and ruination, from the rise of Augustus to the death of Nero. Holland’s expansive history also has distinct shades of I, Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

...here's a test for you. I just posted another historical novel, what do you do?

Nothing. This is your thread. I want a different one.

[tubemonkey]

Downpour -- Weekly Deals -- exp 11 Apr

Previous Titles

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• $4.99 -- Recipes Love & Murder -- S Andrew/ S Prinsloo --> 11.4 hrs/ R-3.4 --> mystery
• $4.99 -- Mark of the Thief -- JA Nielsen/ M Andrews --> 8.4 hrs/ R-4.3 --> Romans

New Titles

• $5.95 -- The Plague Dogs -- Richard Adams/ R Cosham --> 15.3 hrs/ R-3.9 --> literary
• $3.95 -- A Load of Hooey -- Bob Odenkirk/ multiple --> 2.5 hrs/ R-3.7 --> humor
• $4.99 -- The Little Red Guard -- Wenguang Huang/ A Verner --> 7.1 hrs/ R-4.0 --> memoir
• $4.95 -- Silent City -- Carrie Smith/ N Zanzarella --> 10.3 hrs/ R-3.8 --> mystery

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