The Vanquished Truths

About the Book

       Red Army soldier, you are now on German soil. The hour of your revenge has struck. The evil dictator Joseph Stalin implores his Russian soldiers to vanquish Wittenberg, East Germany’s peace after the Nazis surrender in Berlin. Major Boris Stepanovich’s Soviet Military Administration terrorizes the Herman Hahn family, murdering Herman and his daughter Katrina and imprisoning his son Manfred. Herman’s other daughters Indra and Marta escape imprisonment threats by leaving their Wittenberg home, and when Horst Hubel, Manfred’s best friend, learns that Major Stepanovich imprisons him, he surrenders his own freedom for his friend’s freedom. Before his escape from the Buchenwald Prison, Horst watches other inmates die with dignity to give him another day of life to tell their prison story to the free world.

About the Author

     The Vanquished Truce is Michael Boyd's first attempt at historical fiction writing.  After months of extensive research, Michael wrote several drafts for this novel at his Cincinnati, Ohio home over a thirteen-year period until he satisfied the conviction of pacifism in this book and a preservation of some historical truths about Russia’s ruthless, military control of East Germany after the Nazis surrendered in Berlin in May of 1945.

     Michael recently published another book Libby. He invents the small, Ohio town Ansonville for the setting of his story where Emmet Bays destroys the friendship between his daughter Libby and Norma Singer until both girls discover that they are victims of his molestations. In this book, Michael is concerned about abuse in our society. Mr. Boyd can be reached at mjbauthor.agency@hughes.net.