Daniel Levashonsky leaves his home in Palestine, moves to Germany and enlists in Hitler’s elite SS with the dream of helping Germany overthrow the atheistic regime of Josef Stalin and turning Russia back into a nation of Orthodox Christians. After witnessing the slaughter of 27 Jewish civilians and the horrors of Stalingrad, his foolish idealism hardens into a more realistic saving the life of his girlfriend Marlena Steinhauser, a Berlin fashion designer suspected of being “the last Jew in Germany,” and his girlfriend’s mother. When Danny returns with only a minor wound from Stalingrad, in apparent defiance of Hitler’s order that every last soldier must fight to the death, the Fűhrer accuses him of treason and gives him an Danny must either deliver his girlfriend to the Wolf’s Lair or face a firing squad. In Times of War is that rarity among a suspense-filled story of love and adventure told in the language of literature.
Daniel Levashonsky leaves his home in Palestine, moves to Germany and enlists in Hitler’s elite SS with the dream of helping Germany overthrow the atheistic regime of Josef Stalin and turning Russia back into a nation of Orthodox Christians. After witnessing the slaughter of 27 Jewish civilians and the horrors of Stalingrad, his foolish idealism hardens into a more realistic saving the life of his girlfriend Marlena Steinhauser, a Berlin fashion designer suspected of being “the last Jew in Germany,” and his girlfriend’s mother. When Danny returns with only a minor wound from Stalingrad, in apparent defiance of Hitler’s order that every last soldier must fight to the death, the Fűhrer accuses him of treason and gives him an Danny must either deliver his girlfriend to the Wolf’s Lair or face a firing squad. In Times of War is that rarity among a suspense-filled story of love and adventure told in the language of literature.