WILMINGTON, Del. - June 14, 2019 - (Newswire.com)
Leroy E. Bryant II and Elijah C. Richardson Jr., two dedicated screenwriters, directors, producers and authors, have completed their new book, “Yesterday Mourning,” a well-conceived opus that tells of an escaped concentration camp inspector’s loss and heartbreak, which are sacrifices for his misdeeds.
The authors share, “SS Major Erich Schweizer was a concentration camp inspector. Like many other war criminals who escaped capture after WWII, he lives in hiding, but Schweizer’s story is a little different—his circumstance uncommonly unique. On the eve of the Allied liberation of Camp Neuengamme in 1945 Nazi Germany, a gravely ill Schweizer is abandoned by his comrades in the camp. Desperate, his short-term escape plan, assuming the identity of an executed Jewish camp prisoner named Oszkar Böhmer, becomes a long-term charade for survival over many decades.
Compounding the situation, he eventually settles in his prewar home city Heidelberg, Germany in a small Jewish quarter of the city. He longs to be close to his wife and two young sons, knowing he can never physically have contact with them—it’s a lifelong prison sentence of its own. Reluctant imitation is the key in assimilation to avoid detection, as he lives among a people he once pledged to exterminate. Schweizer’s eventual exposure arises from the past and from a derivation he never could have imagined.
Yesterday Mourning takes an introspective journey through the pre- and post-World War II life of a Nazi soldier turned imposter. Set entirely in Germany, Yesterday Mourning sheds light on the economic fear factors that catapulted Hitler’s rise as well as the systematic elimination of Jewish and political dissenters’ freedoms and rights from the context of a German family whose financial viability is reliant on its military serving family members. Full of secrets, twists and turns, the novel’s protagonist Erich Schweizer toes the line between family savior and eventual societal villain in this piece that eerily mirrors the changing tides of contemporary America’s political and economic landscape."
Published by Covenant Books of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Leroy E. Bryant II and Elijah C. Richardson Jr.’s new book shows the complexities of life in the midst of war and conflict through the eyes of a German war fugitive caught in financial, political and personal moments.
Readers can purchase “Yesterday Mourning” at bookstores everywhere or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
Covenant Books is an international, Christian owned and operated publishing house based in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Covenant Books specializes in all genres of work that appeal to the Christian market. For additional information or media inquiries, contact Covenant Books at 843-507-8373.
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