Escape from Babylon

by Chris Woolgrove

An emotional roller coaster set against the uncertainties of post-war Europe. The WW2 and DDR generations are aging and as they do, their stories and memories of their times will die with them. These emotions of the ordinary people who were subjected to these systems should not be lost and what those generations experienced can best be told, not as a cold history book, but as a novel. Escape from Babylon is historically acurate and gives the reader the pleasure of knowing the social and physical constraints, attitudes, loves, hopes fears of these real life generations before they disappear. Through the turbulent times of Franz Schmidt, feel how terror and disillusionment morphs into Boa constrictor, Gestapo into Stasi, trust into deceit. Only one constant theme gives him hope.

Gabrielle Pahnke, a Kindle purchaser wrote. "I am from former East Germany and live in Canada. This book is fantastic...it's our past and the story feels so real. Loved to read it!"

13 time best-selling novelist Sarah Challis also liked it immensely and went on to say that she felt that it is an outstandingly written first novel with the main characters sympathetic, and the baddies horrible.

333 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 18, 2013