Ascension: A Novel of Nazi Germany
About this ebook
Fear prompts Konrad Wengler to put his faith aside and try desperately to forget his heritage. After fighting in the Great War, he's wounded and turns instead to law enforcement in his tiny Bavarian hometown. There, he falls under the spell of the fledgling Nazi Party. He joins the Party in patriotic fervour and becomes a Lieutenant of Police and Schutzstaffel (SS).
In the course of his duties as policeman, Konrad offends a powerful Nazi official who starts an SS investigation. War breaks out. When he joins the Police Battalions, he's sent to Poland and witnesses there firsthand the atrocities being committed upon his fellow Jews.
Unknown to Konrad, the SS investigators have discovered his origins and follow him into Poland. Arrested and sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Konrad is forced to face what it means to be a Jew and fight for survival. Will his friends on the outside, his wife and lawyer, be enough to counter the might of the Nazi machine?
About the author
Max Overton is a writer of historical novels with the award-winning Lion of Scythia trilogy as his first foray into writing. Born in Malaysia, he traveled extensively through Asia, Europe and North America before settling down in New Zealand. Later in life, he moved to Australia where he taught a variety of courses at James Cook University. From there, he moved to the United States for five years and then back to tropical Australia, where he continues to write in a rainforest setting with his wife Julie and three cats. Max is now in the final stages of a six-part historical series set in ancient Egypt (the Scarab books). He has also written paranormal adventure, paranormal historical and horror novels and he is starting to explore other genres.
Read more about Max, in his interview in our blog.
