On Desperate Ground

Name: On Desperate Ground
Rating: 4.17 (483 reviews)

by James R. Benn

First published 2000

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As Nazi Germany approaches collapse, Colonel Johann Faust develops a covert plan to provoke American and Soviet forces into fighting one another. He hopes that a clash between the advancing Allies will fracture the coalition before Germany is completely defeated.

Captain Dieter Neukirk, once Faust’s protégé, is more interested in saving his remaining soldiers than obeying orders for a futile final stand. In Berlin, Elsa Klein risks execution by helping hidden Jews and providing false papers, while wounded American officer Mack Mackenzie investigates reports of a secret German operation. Their paths converge during the last campaign inside Germany, where exhausted armies are approaching from opposite directions and one deliberate act could transform the closing days of the European war into the beginning of another conflict.