![]() Ingleford watched the family play and begged them to let her have the 18-month-old toddler. Ten and a half years before WWII, the Ingleford family were on vacation at the seaside. “There were lots and lots of people like Mortimer in the world, people who suffered because other people thought war glorious.” In this literary niche, it sounds entirely plausible. In any other genre this story would seem contrived. Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery is fiction. When reading living history books from that period, a reader must brace himself for a story that is likely to explore psychologically deep topics and layers of suffering. A bit fantasy, a bit dystopian, a bit chaotic, a bit epic, and a lot incredible. During that creatively brutal time, so many stranger-than-fiction things happened to real people, and stories from that period have produced a unique genre. Real life during WWII was especially good at turning things inside out and upside down. “England and her Allies aren’t just fighting the Axis countries – they’re fighting the evil spirits that have laid hold of Germany and Italy and Japan.” ![]()
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