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4.0 out of 5 stars
The blurbs tell the story, but read it anyway!,
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This review is from: The Last Shot (Hardcover)
For its poignancy and insight into what it must've been like as WW2 finally, but perhaps uncertainly, was ending, this novel brings that moment alive. Who fired the last shot and when serves as the hook for the reader, but I honestly felt this was rather anti-climactic when it's revealed. The strength here of Hamilton's skill lies less in the plot than in characterization and the establishment of mood as the Nazi remnants flee ahead of the Soviets from the Czech lands back into Germany. For those who like Hamilton's themes of German alienation and those caught between frontiers and national strife, this novel will please. Also look for a very hard-to-find counterpart novel of his set in the GDR, "The Love Test." Both works, as with his better-known thrillers and his memoir, take on loneliness and fear with compassion and humanity.
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The Last Shot by Hugo Hamilton (Hardcover - May 1992)
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