Act of War: A Novel of Love and Treason

by Leonard Sanders

Book Overview

During World War II, former U-boat captain Walther Von Beck and Rachel, a German Jewess working for the Nazis to save her imprisoned family, carry out a plan to destroy the liner "Normandie" docked in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671256106
• ISBN13: 9780671256104
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 396 Pages

Customer Reviews

Adventure and romance...

The author combines fact and fiction into one story. The sinking of the French luxury liner Normandie has long remained one of the most fascinating mysteries of WWII. Docked in N.Y. after the fall of France, she was guarded by the FBI., the police and the Coast Guard...yet she burned and sank. Now, drawing on hitherto secret files of the FBI, Sanders has recreated one of the most daring episodes of the war. The Normandie was more than a luxury cruise ship, she could also carry 15,000 troops across the Atlantic at a speed that could outdistance every submarine and surface ship. Ultimately the command descended from Hitler himself: "Sink the Normandie!" Walter Von Beck, a former U-Boat captain and Rachel, one of the many German Jews spying reluctantly for the Nazies in NY are the ones ordered to do it. They come against two equally determined men who will do anything possible to see that it isn't sunk.