He lost his memory in war. He found himself in history’s darkest circle.
When a shell blast during World War I erases his past, Friedrich Richard awakens in a military hospital with no name, no family, and no memory — only the face of the man in the next bed: Adolf Hitler. Years later, drawn into Hitler’s inner circle as a trusted adviser, Friedrich witnesses the birth of a regime built on hatred and fear.
But conscience runs deeper than loyalty. As he secretly aids the resistance and uncovers shocking truths about his lost identity, Friedrich faces a choice that will define his soul: remain silent and survive, or risk everything to defy a monster.
Told with haunting realism and illustrated with more than sixty archival photographs, When Ashes Cried blurs the line between history and fiction to reveal one man’s extraordinary struggle for redemption amid humanity’s greatest moral collapse.
Alan A. Winter was born in Newark, New Jersey. He received a BA in history from Rutgers and earned professional degrees from, and was on faculty, at both NYU and Columbia. Winter published four novels before co-authoring Wolf and Sins of the Fathers with Herbert J. Stern. He is the sole author of When Ashes …
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When Ashes Cried completes the trilogy of an amnesiac German soldier, Friedrich Richard whose story begins in Wolf, when he is sent to Pasewalk Hospital for treatment to restore his lost memory. There, he befriends the patient in the next bed: Adolf Hitler. Friedrich becomes the readers’ eyes and ears as Hitler and his inner …
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When Ashes Cried leaps from today’s headlines. It takes the reader on a suspense-filled journey historians fear to trod and highlights dots they don’t connect. ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781663272706ISBN 13 (HARD): 9781663272720ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781663272713
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