For Franz Wolff, honour on the battlefield was a noble birthright handed down over generations. However when his war experience is cut short after being left a cripple, he is assigned duty as
guard in the murderous camp of Auschwitz.There he encounters and falls in love with inmate Elena Prikaznova whose mythical qualities convert his hatred into acts of mercy. After the war he
seeks her out, but encounters a wall of silence only breached by the inmates in his post war trial. With the stigma of collaboration and witness manipulation, the trial and its verdict leaves
us in doubt whether we really got the truth.Following up his first novel Whispering Birches, Paul Richard Sully again challenges deep held beliefs in the war years and questions the role played
by the Catholic church in the conflict.
