The Sum Of It All Book II: The Darkness by The Silver Fox

The Sum Of It All Book II: The Darkness
by The Silver Fox

‘The Sum of It All, The Darkness’ continues the story of a small child during the Second World War.

In the preceding novel: The Sum of It All: The Twilight, The saga began with an old man dying of cancer in a hospital. As he drifted in and out of a coma, he slipped back and forth between the present reality and his past life. It began with a child arriving in Dresden with his family after being deported by the Nazis from his native land. His father was shipped in as a ‘volunteer’ to work in a furniture factory converted to the manufacture of V-1 rocket nose cones assembled out of plywood and toxic resins with other nationals brought in for that purpose.

In this thrilling conclusion, the family arrives in Dresden and both parents must work at his project as directed by the authorities.

The boy soon becomes aware about the realities of life under the repressive regime, but still finds childish amusement with his brother during the constant hunger and danger that is part of his everyday existence.

His nights are continually plagued by a frightening dream/vision that he had when he was very young all through the War and the bombing of Dresden.

The boy falls ill and through the efforts of his parents as well as the bribing of certain officials he’s clandestinely put into a hospital.

He’s declared dead by a physician, but somehow is noticed by the attendant sent to take him to the morgue that he’s still alive.

Strange coincidences keep saving him from death through the holocaust of the city and later during the battle at the Russian Front. Even though the old man sees himself as a child in his comatose visions he’s also aware that he already has lived through those events. Now in bed he must relive the same events as when he was growing up, but in the context of an adult’s mind and understanding.

The Saga takes the reader through the child/man experiences to the end of the war and the last gasping days of the Third Reich when staying alive depended on luck, divine providence and the ability to bribe the antagonists or friends.

It concludes with the family escaping the Soviet army into the U.S. Zone before the allies had set any definite lines of occupation.

Editor in Chiefs Note: After reading this enthralling and often heart rending novel, I must say that it makes one pause to appreciate the freedoms we have been blessed with here in the West in our time. Freedom which we have always taken for granted, rarely stopping to ask "At what price?"

About Author:

EDMUND ALBRECHTAS Writing as THE SILVER FOX

Ed Albrechtas is a retired executive.

He spent a number of years traveling and working in Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America for a US multinational firm in the 1970’s and 80’s. The writing of the book began in 1993. The project was postponed by other works, which have been published. (‘The Key of Damascus’ ISBN 1-4241-1281-8 and ‘The Hidden’ ISBN 978-1-894936-80-4). The delay was also due to the acceptance of a position as president of an IT company and some serious bouts with cancers.

He resides in London, Ontario, Canada

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