During a lifetime in publishing, writing, translating and editing, Rex W Last authored many books including studies of Remarque, Erich Kästner, AI and language learning, and an account of a carer’s life dealing with Parkinson’s and dementia, and has produced translations including Willy Brandt’s wartime memoirs and the works of Max Ernst. Taking early retirement from academic life to concentrate on novels set in Germany during the Nazi period, he has been inspired by his own family background in these powerful accounts of Germans challenging the Hitler regime.
Amidst the secluded valleys of Bavaria, 1940, lies a covert Nazi stronghold, the womb to the sinister Project Sea Eagle. Here, in hidden chambers beneath the earth, Nazi scientists toil over an innovative menace: a fleet of aqua-planes intended to unleash a torrent of terror upon Britain’s shores ...