Between These Walls Blog Tour: Spotlight with guest post and giveaway

 

Join us for this tour from May 11 to May 29, 2020!

Book Details:

Book Title:  Between These Walls by Michael Newman
Category:  Adult Fiction 18 yrs +,  375 pages
Genre:  Historical Fiction
Publisher:  Friesen Press
Release date:   March 26, 2020
Content Rating:  PG-13 + M. There are scenes of violence and explicit sex in the book.

Book Description:

A novel of historical fiction that turns on two key events: the discovery of a beautiful blonde woman’s body in the back seat of a burnt out SS staff car during the last days of World War II, by US Army Medical Corps Colonel Samuel Singer, and the unsealing more than four decades later of a security-taped package from Germany, bearing a secret that changes the life of New York art curator Daniel Singer, the adopted son of Colonel Singer.

As Daniel learns more about the package’s contents, he unlocks the history of three families -- one American and two German – through tumultuous times, from the end of the First World War to the rise of Adolf Hitler, the Second World War, the Holocaust, and through to three Middle East wars. Along the way, he gets entangled in the web of the Mossad, Israel’s top secret spy agency and Naomi one of its beautiful operatives, and is ultimately faced with a life-altering choice – and the opportunity to right the most heinous of wrongs.

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Meet the Author:

A Hungarian refugee (1956) and the son of Holocaust survivors. A retired lifetime entrepreneur living on Toronto's waterfront with my wife and cocker spaniel. Enjoys reading, mainly books about WW2, boating and worldwide travel. Father of three kids and grandfather of eleven.

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Guest Post: The Setting behind “Between These Walls”

 

One of the key locations in my historical fiction novel, “Between These Walls,” is Mauthausen Concentration Camp near Linz in upper Austria. This is where one of the book’s characters, Bruno Schmidt, is assigned to help camp commandant Ziereis maintain discipline. It is here that my father, George Newman, was held prisoner for eight months from 1944 to 1945 – a historical fact that I wove into the novel. I first visited the camp in 1996 with my oldest son Adrian. It was an eye opening experience. As we walked through the barracks with their three-tiered wooden bunks, the gas chambers, crematoria and execution rooms, we couldn’t help but feel an atmosphere of doom enveloping us. As if the evil perpetrated within these walls was still hiding in there. Once we emerged from the buildings into the brilliant sunlight of summer we looked around and saw the peaceful, verdant country side, which looked very much as it would have during the war, the timeline of the novel. It was hard to imagine how people living in the surrounding farms from 1938 to 1945 could not have been aware of what was happening in the camp on a daily basis. Despite the bright sunshine and warm air, there were no birds chirping and flitting about. It seemed as if the whole world was in mourning for the victims who died at the camp. After going through the buildings, Adrian and I walked down the 186 steps dubbed the “Stairs of Death” to the quarry where, during the war, prisoners were worked to death. They were forced to carry 50-kilogram rocks up the stairs on their backs. As I stood by the small lake in the quarry I imagined my father hauling such boulders up the stairs. It is in honour of and to the memory of my father that I wrote “Between These Walls.” Having my son there to teach him about family history was also very important to me, as the novel emphasizes the importance of family as seen through the lives of three families whose wartime fortunes and misfortunes are detailed in the book.

 

Tour Schedule:

May 11 – Working Mommy Journal – book review / giveaway
May 12 - Lamon Reviews - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
May 12 – Books and Zebras – book review / giveaway
May 13 – The Legal Duchess – book review
May 13 - I'm All About Books – book spotlight / giveaway
May 14 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
May 15 – The avid reader – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
May 18 – Book Corner News and Reviews – book review / giveaway
May 19 – Viviana MacKade – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
May 20 – Books for Books – book review
May 20 - 411 on Books, Authors and Publishing News - book spotlight / guest post
May 21 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
May 22 – Just Another Reader – book review / giveaway
May 22 - Karma Readz – book review / giveaway
May 25 – Leels Loves Books – book review / giveaway
May 26 – Svetlanas reads and views – book review
May 26 - La libreria di Beppe - book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
May 27 – StoreyBook Reviews – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
May 28 – Michelle Bloodworth Goodreads – book review
May 29 - Adventurous Jessy - book review / giveaway

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