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Book Review of The Alphabet House

The Alphabet House
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An amazing and wholly original book and absolutely engrossing. A must read!!! I'll not forget it! Set in WWII where 2 British pilots go down behind German lines.... Then the whole story goes totally sideways; it is NOT your ordinary war novel, not at all.
Fugitives, trying to hide on a German hospital train - turns out it's a train full of mentally ill SS officers, and that's all I'll say. How to survive? how to endure? to escape? Then part 2 is set in the same city 27 years later. Expect the unexpected. Now read it for yourself!