The Romanov Rescue

De: Tom Kratman, Kacey Ezell, Justin Watson

Narrado por: Matt Godfrey

It is the beginning of 1918, the last year of the greatest war in human history, to date. All the belligerents stagger on their feet. Starvation is an ever present reality, while disease waits in the wings. In Russia, no longer a belligerent but, instead, rapidly descending into civil war and chaos, a lone family—Father, Mother, four beautiful young girls, and a brave but sickly boy—await their own fate, shivering and hungry in the dark, hoping and praying for salvation. Their relatives in England have turned their backs. The guards set over them do little but torment them. They look Heavenward, but God doesn't answer. They know they're a threat to the new regime, a threat that will, in time, be eliminated.

But even the strongest fabric has flaws. An escaped prisoner of war, caught, injured, and punished, but still highly capable, might be one. An airship, returned and at loose ends after a failed mission to Africa might be another. A German general, taking a wrong turn on his nightly walk and suddenly coming face to face with the reality of the monster rising in the east, would be a third.

Follow, then, as the general gives the orders, the prisoner of war raises the men from among his fellows, and the airship launches itself forward, to contest fate, to tear the fabric of time, and to effect The Romanov Rescue.

©2021 Tom Kratman, Justin Watson, and Kacey Ezell (P)2021 Tantor Media

A extraordinary tale.

I've been waiting on the audio book to consume this story and I'm glad I finally got to go through it. This is not an easy story, but neither is it a easy setting. The authors managed to not get too tropy with it while sticking to very gritty realism about the time and place it was set in. But knowing who these authors are, that is no surprise.
They reached a proper conclusion to this first book and left a clear bridge to the next ones.
I'll be reading them ad well.
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Great alternate history and dirigibles!

I enjoyed the characters and their motivations. You could feel the dread, loss, and determination of each. Solid read.