Berlin Ablaze '45

BERLIN ABLAZE, '45 takes the reader on a unique journey into the past, revealing long-buried facts about World War II events and persons in Northern Italy and Berlin, Germany, long cloaked in noir mystery. Most ignored or unknown, the historical war fiction of author Don DeNevi brings the truths together in 21 suspenseful stunning chapters clearly and comprehensively written. Vivid details and absorbing minutiae of personality miens and milieu settings allow the reader-participant to vicariously experience Peter's hopes for ultimate survival in the topography of terror, dreams of his Aliandra, dangers of being guillotined, and personal demands on himself for triumphant duty.

Although integral and intrinsic for the storyline, fiction is subsequent to facts in time, order, or place, i.e., the pure perfidy of Himmler's Gestapo, Heydrich's SS; the super secret Wehrmacht-Luftwaffe Underground Communications Center at Dozzano, Italy; meeting test pilot Hanna Reitsch, Generaloberst Hans Guderian; SS extermination camp experimenter, Doctor Joseph Mengele; arrest by Secret Police Ernst Kaltenbrunner; visiting Hitler's secret Wolf's Lair in Poland, the Wolfsschanze; traveling to Berlin in Hitler's private train and coach, the Fuhrerwagen; racing through Berlin while bombed and ablaze.


Don DeNevi is the author of more than 60 nonfiction books before pivoting to historical fiction due to his much appreciated research status at the Huntington Library in San Marino-Pasadena, California. Currently, he has three fictional sagas in play, 10 volumes of "Shep, the Story Of A Hero Dog and the Nine Texas Rangers Who Saved Him"; 5 volumes of the Lieutenant Peter Toscanini, USN, Medical, Special Assignments, Nocturne Series, and, Volume 1, "Shelter Cove", and 4 future volume on "The San Quentin Prison Tennis Team Reaches the US Open".