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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: man without breath
    sub title: a Bernie Gunther novel
  name:
    name part: Kerr, Philip.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Mystery fiction.
  genre: Historical fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 465 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Berlin, March, 1943. A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, commanders on the ground know better. Morale is low, discipline at risk. Now word has reached Berlin of a Red massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. If true, the message it would send to the troops is clear: Fight on or risk certain death. For once, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want the same thing: irrefutable evidence of this Russian atrocity. To the Wehrmacht, such proof will soften the reality of its own war crimes in the eyes of the victors. For Goebbels, such proof could turn the tide of war by destroying the Alliance, cutting Russia off from its western supply lines. Both parties agree that the ensuing investigation must be overseen by a professional trained in sifting evidence and interrogating witnesses. Anything that smells of incompetence or tampering will defeat their purposes. And so Bernie Gunther is dispatched to Smolensk, where truth is as much a victim of war as those poor dead Polish officers. Smolensk, March, 1943. Army Group Center is an enclave of Prussian aristocrats who have owned the Wehrmacht almost as long as they have owned their baronial estates, an officer class whose families have been intermarrying for generations. The wisecracking, rough-edged Gunther is not a good fit. He is, after all, a Berlin bull. But he has a far bigger concern than sharp elbows and supercilious stares, for somewhere in this mix is a cunning and savage killer who has left a trail of bloody victims. This is no psycho case. This is a man with motive enough to kill and skills enough to leave no trace of himself. Bad luck that in this war zone, such skills are two-a-penny. Somehow Bernie must put a face to this killer before he puts an end to Bernie.
  note: Philip Kerr.
  note: "A Marian Wood book."
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Private investigators
    geographic: Germany
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Smolensk (Russia)
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6061.E784 M35 2013
  classification: 823/.914
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Bernie Gunther novel
    name:
      name part: Kerr, Philip
  identifier: 9780399160790 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0399160795 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2012050227
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130207
    record change date: 20151204205211.0
    record identifier: in00003154167
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng