Eoin Dempsey‘s 历史小说

作家Eoin Dempsey 爱尔兰裔美国人，读了他的四本书，迄今为止好像他也只写四本

Finding rebecca 和 white rose black forest, 是二战背景，本人特别喜欢，第三本The bogside boys 是关于爱尔兰内战，第四本toward the midnight sun 讲的是美国19世纪末淘金史。他的写作读起来很流畅，叙事性结构，历史细节还原真实，男女感情描写非常细腻动人。

Finding rebecca 讲的是一个德国男孩 Christopher爱上了一个犹太邻家女孩 Rebecca，女孩被抓到集中营，男孩为救她，加入纳粹的故事。

对我印象深刻的节选,  女孩给男孩写的信全被他爸藏起来了，女孩以为男孩不喜欢她了，接受了另外一个人的求婚，他们在这种情况下又碰面了。

.... “I missed you so much when you left" " Why didn't you write to me? I never understood..." " My father kept the letters from me. He hid them. I only found out about them by accident. I overheard him telling Uli about them one night" ”What？ She stopped walking. Her face tightened. "Your never got my letters?"....

Christopher 在集中营救了个在毒气室没被毒死的8岁小女孩Anka，把她藏到了自己办公室，被发现后小女孩当场被杀害。

"Anka was crying, trying to pull away. Frankl held her in place. Fridrich drew his pistol. He held it to Anka's head and pulled the trigger. Her head jerked backward and her body crumpled"

集中营暴行：

...The dead body of a woman in her thirties were strewn on the concrete floor, her head pumping out ugly black-crimson blood. "What happend here." An SS man stepped forward as he placed his pistol back into its holster. "I saw her place a ring into her pocket"...

"He must have killed four, five, ten prisoners a week. I've seen him beat prisoners to death with a shovel for the gold fillings in their teeth."

Christopher 在集中营目睹了种种暴行后几近奔溃，他父亲开导他的话：

"It's amazing what years of conditioning and propaganda can achieve" his father answered "No one is born with that brutality in them"