Beautiful book by David L. Robbins set in France a few days after the landing of the historic D-Day.
From the back cover:
'Load it, "A cry that became the motto of the Red Ball Express: for the American soldiers who had the task of transporting supplies to the front after D-Day June 6, 1944 meant turning the engines and begin exhausting marches in column, in any weather. They had "only" ride the trucks and deliver the materials. But Joe Amos, a young black driver of the transport battalion, it is impossible to keep away from the fighting to liberate France from the Germans.
The story of the heroic battalion is identified with the drama of a generation turned upside down by war: the racist fanaticism that is the subject Joe Amos has its counterpart in the power of Rabbi Kahn, a veteran of World War I on the trail of the missing pilot son: it will be a continuous battle with God, unceasing demand on the need for the carnage, but also demand for an uninterrupted grace and at the same time, forgiveness for killing. The liberation of Paris will coincide with the end of a ruthless traitor American named Chien Blanc, enriched with the black market. The destinies of these three men, meet, become the painful testimony of a story that no one has ever managed to explain really.
David L. Robbins , after a law degree, worked for some years as a lawyer. Then he devoted himself to writing fiction.
Freedom Road
David L. Robbins
Longanesi
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