Presenting the first sixty-five pages of James Bacque’s astonishing new novel...

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Our Fathers’ War combines five separate love stories, of three brave young Germans, a young English noble-woman, a French resistance fighter, and four young Canadians whose lives are forever changed by the gigantic events that began with the Second World War on September 1, 1939. Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor, Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator, and Franklin Roosevelt, U.S President, are all major characters in this vivid novel which like a great wine, unites several strains in one enthralling whole. Check the latest REVIEWS.

The oil sketch on the book jacket (above) by F.T.V. Savard of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, shows the burning of the German town of Friesoythe in April, 1944, an incident which is dramatized in the novel.

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Friesoythe was burned because a Canadian general thought one of his men had been shot by a civilian sniper after the town had surrendered--oil sketch of a dead German paratrooper by F.T.V. Savard

In 1997, James Bacque left his home in Toronto to live with his wife Elisabeth in a remote cottage in the woods beside Georgian Bay, Ontario, while he worked on his new book, Our Fathers’ War. You can read the first long excerpt below. If you want to read more in book form, please respond via the web-link below.

If you wish, you may reserve a copy of the final book by filling out the form below. Bacque will guarantee a signed copy of the hardcover or paperback first edition for you. The first one thousand subscribers will receive a copy inscribed with his/her name, and the author’s autograph.

NB This is a big challenging book, which has been favourably compared by Professor Richard Mathias Mueller to Tolstoy’s War And Peace so, like that immense book, this one includes a handy list of characters to help you keep them clear. The list appears at the head of the excerpts.