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Potsdam Station (2010)

Tekijä: David Downing

Sarjat: John Russell (4)

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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:In April 1945, Hitlerâ??s Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.
 
John Russellâ??s son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Sovietsâ?? final onslaught. In Berlin, Russellâ??s girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from Germany. With a Jewish orphan to care for, sheâ??s trying to outlast the Nazis.
 
Russell hasnâ??t heard from either of them since fleeing Germany in 1941. He is desperate to find out if theyâ??re alive and to protect them from the advancing Red Army. He flies to Moscow, seeking permission to enter Berlin with the Red Army as a journalist, but when the Sovietâ??s arrest him as a spy, things look bleakâ??until they find a use for him that has him parachuting into
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    Germany 1945: From War to Peace (tekijä: Richard Bessel) (cushlareads)
    cushlareads: Excellent non-fiction book that would be good to read with Potsdam Station.
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Downing has a brilliant talent for portraying time and place as he does so well in this John Russell series set in wartime Berlin. In this novel, the fourth in the series, the Russians are advancing while the Wehrmacht retreat and Russell's wife hides with a young Jewish girl. Downing's writing has an authenticity which makes for a gripping story. I highly recommend this excellent series. ( )
  VivienneR | Jun 24, 2022 |
At first I didn't like how Downing split the narration between the three main characters, John, Effie and Paul. But, like the previous books in the series, this one does a great job establishing the setting, for a time and place—the Soviet capture of Berlin—that I had not thought about before. John's heroism and the implausible places it takes him are amusing.

> ‘A corpse marriage,’ she said. ‘I shouldn’t call it that – I hate it when other people use that phrase. But it’s more than three years ago. Maybe you’d disappeared by then, but there was a Führer decree allowing women who’d just lost their fiancées to marry them post-mortem. There was a pension included, and that’s why I went for it, but I did love Gerd, and I’m sure he’d have seen the funny side of it – marrying me when he was already dead.’ ( )
  breic | Sep 23, 2021 |
Not bad overall, but exceptional in the last week or two of the Red Army advance into Berlin following the protagonist Russell parachuting in from Moscow, his actress wife hiding in the city with a little Jewish girl, and Russell's son in the Wehrmacht retreating into the city. 1 Dec. 2015. ( )
  tmph | Sep 13, 2020 |
This is the fourth novel of a six book series. It leaps 3 years and 3 months forward from the last book, to April 1945. Initially it was a little disconcerting but then I realized that Downing has already shown us what he wanted to show us, and although there is likely a story that lies untold he wanted us to now see the fall of Berlin. Focus here is at times different, but also somewhat familiar - Downing again take us through the streets and train stations with a technique that may be tiresome to some readers but one that I generally find immersive. As before, there is quite a bit of story building before things take off at an exciting pace. Our primary character John Russell, British-American journalist, was escaping from the German Reich at the end of the last novel 'Stettin Station', and now is determined to get back in before the complete collapse and imminent Russian invasion of Berlin to make contact with his son Paul and his girlfriend Effie. Effie is more than a girlfriend really. His plan is to follow the Red Army as a journalist. Hmmm not so easy. The Soviets are as bad as the Nazis.

Unlike prior stories large parts of this happen away from John Russell and the story quick cuts between Russell, Effi and Paul throwing the reader a little off balance as the Soviet army attacks and the German army retreats. Very well done. ( )
  RBeffa | Jun 2, 2018 |
This is the fourth novel in the John Russell/Effi Koenen series set before and during the second world war. At the end of the previous novel, Russell had managed to escape Berlin for neutral Sweden in 1941, but Effi could not accompany him. This novel moves forward over three years to near the very end for Hitler's Germany, as the Red Army surrounds and advances on Berlin, in April 1945. Russell persuades his contacts in the Red Army to let him slip in as part of an advance party before the main army conquers the city, to find Effi and his now 18 year old son Paul. The action of the novel follows Russell's attempts to infiltrate, Effi's struggle to survive as the city collapses around her, and the completion of Paul's own disillusionment as a young member of the Wehrmacht. They do all eventually meet, but all is not quite neat and tidy, and the slightly ambiguous conclusion leads us into the fifth book. Downing describes the environment of fin de guerre Berlin very evocatively and creates well rounded and likeable characters, though as before this does ramble a little in places. ( )
  john257hopper | Feb 7, 2018 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:In April 1945, Hitlerâ??s Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.
 
John Russellâ??s son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Sovietsâ?? final onslaught. In Berlin, Russellâ??s girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from Germany. With a Jewish orphan to care for, sheâ??s trying to outlast the Nazis.
 
Russell hasnâ??t heard from either of them since fleeing Germany in 1941. He is desperate to find out if theyâ??re alive and to protect them from the advancing Red Army. He flies to Moscow, seeking permission to enter Berlin with the Red Army as a journalist, but when the Sovietâ??s arrest him as a spy, things look bleakâ??until they find a use for him that has him parachuting into

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