Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou eBook Steven Burgauer
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Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou intertwines historic persons, events and locales of World War II with a fictional Nazi plot to disrupt the manufacture of Higgins boats, the Allied landing craft which won the war. Spanning the globe from amphibious landings at Gavutu and Guadalcanal, to the Navajo code talker school near San Diego, to the exotic environs of New Orleans, to the secret world of Bletchley Park, England, to the Allied invasion of North Africa, this tautly written thriller, covering two weeks during the summer of 1942, combines an intriguing cast of characters with the historically important Andrew Jackson Higgins, Admiral John Godfrey of British Intelligence, Navajo code talker Chester Nez, Colonel “Wild Bill” Donovan of the OSS (later the CIA), Commander Ian Fleming of MI6, along with a Polish intelligence officer code-named “Rygor,” and Sylvestro “Silver Dollar Sam” Carolla, the crime boss of New Orleans.
A German dies in a New Orleans whorehouse. He is carrying a mysterious notebook filled with hand-drawn maps, surveillance notes and cryptic codes. As a result, Nazi Waffen SS conspirators ruthlessly search for that notebook, killing anyone, including two U.S. Marshals, who get in the way of their plans to disrupt the production of the Eureka steel-ramped landing crafts built by Higgins Industries.
Can this sabotage be stopped by a U.S. Navy intelligence officer, or a New Orleans Mafia don and his Cuban mistress with ties to British MI6, or the brilliant codebreakers of Bletchley Park? The lives of U.S. Marines and Navajo code talkers in the Pacific and the Allied Forces of Operation Torch in North Africa are depending on their success in disrupting the plot.
The victory of Allied Forces hangs in the balance.
Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou eBook Steven Burgauer
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Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou eBook Steven Burgauer Reviews
Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou by Steven Burgauer is a brilliant historical fiction about, well – Nazis trying to sabotage Allied manufacturing capabilities of the Higgins Boat mostly in and around Louisiana. Or, it could be that the Allies are the saboteurs and the Nazi’s plan is what is being disrupted. Either way, the title fits and while it is a bit on-the-nose, what you find between the covers is a thoroughly-researched, incredibly detailed story of some of the unsung heroes of WWII. I say “unsung” because I, myself, had never heard of many of the real people, technologies and events that are featured in this book. Someone who has thoroughly researched the second World War would probably have to do a lot less Googling than I had to, but I was pleased to find that all of the author’s real facts were accurate. More importantly, I found very few real historical facts that were unnecessary. Sometimes, in historical fiction, you get two books a fiction story and then a bunch of un-related data about the real-world events that were simultaneously taking place. This doesn’t happen here, and the historical information the author provides us not only augments the story he’s telling, but is almost-certainly going to be interesting data that you haven’t heard before. If anything, this should be a sign to those who don’t normally go in for historical fiction that this book can be enjoyed by anyone. In this respect it’s a bit like the film Saving Private Ryan, a fictional interpretation of a historical event that is written in a way that can be appreciated by even those who might not normally like war stories. That film and this book have other things in common as well, which I will get to shortly.
This is a book with many well-developed characters and branching storylines, mostly centered around a dead Nazi found in New Orleans, the attempts by the Nazis to get back information he was carrying and the Allied attempts to stop the Germans from destroying the factory which produced the Higgins Boats – the Allied craft that Dwight D. Eisenhower credited with being crucial to Allied victory on the European Western Front, North Africa and Italy. Most people have probably seen a Higgins Boat before, even if they didn’t know what it was called, as they were featured in the film Saving Private Ryan as the crafts the soldiers disembark from during the Normandy Beach sequence, just as they did during the actual storming. While that is presented as the main plot of the novel, this a book with a number of intricate subplots that intersect at times and diverge completely in others. It’s a tough balancing act, but the author pulls it off with aplomb. Without giving away too much, I can assure readers that the surprise cameos from history, the romance, the intrigue and the (at times) horrifically-detailed events of the story will be enough to keep you reading, likely at the edge of your seat, from the first page to the last.
If there’s one small thing to nitpick about the book, it would have to be the title. While “Nazi Saboteurs On The Bayou” is a one-hundred percent accurate depiction of what the book is about for the reader regardless of which way you interpret it, it would be hard to argue that it doesn’t sound like a Doc Savage pulp subtitle or the name of a B-movie from the fifties. Since the book is a thoroughly-researched and intricate fiction with innumerable factual, historical elements, I can’t help but wonder if the title would be enough to turn off the very target audience that this book is looking to attract. While I think the book would absolutely be better served by a different title, this is a very minor grievance I have with an otherwise beautifully-crafted book and I don’t think it warrants the deduction of even half of a star. 5 Stars.
Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou Steven Burgauer
WWII brought about many battles and within this novel we will learn about the Higgins boats and the important part they played in helping to stop the Nazi spies hoping to blow up the factory where these boats were being made in New Orleans. As the book begins we learn about a body found in the bayou with no form of identification yet found in a whorehouse this body belonged to a dead German. Add in two more bodies floating in the Mississippi bayou and at the heart of these murders a notebook that was stitched inside the clothing of the first body filled with unknown codes and hand drawn maps. Andrew Jackson Higgins is a colorful character and as you get to know him and hear him bark orders to this men and making deals to get the government contract and get the boats completed hopefully he will build a landing craft for the allies along with these specially crafted boats that can do what others could not be used in shallow waters and even better able to land on shores, beaches and then go back into the water by changing the propellers. Each character is quite colorful and the author takes us inside the bordellos as we meet many of the mixed blood prostitutes, some into voodoo and others with connections to our government. Added in meet Nico Carolla a mob boss whose family is intricately involved with Higgins, the deal for the government contract and is providing helping intel on the German and Italian defense of Sicily. The hope is to use the Higgins boats for an allied invasion. But, the most interesting part of this book focuses on the Navajo code-talkers how they communicate using their language and how that will be used to hide messages and intelligence from the enemy.
Meeting Commander Ian Flemming and several other British intelligence officers who provide their own take on the war, how their goals for their men and what finally happens when the boats are tested and the men are practicing in order to be ready for the real fight. From Cuba to U.S. to Tunisia all over the warzones this novel spans many places. What is really quite remarkable is the authentic dialect of the mixed-blooded women, the blacks and the fact that they are depicted as ignorant yet they are not. Astute in many ways an able to recount the incident that happens when Hector, a black man who works for Nick is killed, the reference to the green book that helps black people circumvent the city and where it’s safe to go, this book takes us way back in time before equal rights and the many freedoms afforded to everyone now. Street slang, the limited and yet new technology of the times and the history behind the boats and the war allows readers to feel as if they are taking part in it along with the characters.
The year is 1942 and the place is the Pacific, the Europe and New Orleans but the crucial element are the Higgins boats as the commander trains and demands that each one of the 35 men take turns placing the boats in the water, traveling in deeper waters and then returning and doing it over and over again. So, how are they going to stop this author created Nazi plot from stopping the production of these boats as the story spans from New Orleans, to San Diego and to North Africa spanning the globe and beyond.
As we hear the prostitutes and we visit Mahogany Hall in New Orleans we get to visualize the islands of the South Pacific in the vividly depicted descriptions added in we learn about von Brockdoff who died and his grandson is stuck in a foxhole in the blistering heat on the island of Fuji. We meet a colorful PFC Russell Brock who never met or knew him and has no idea that he died. His goal as we hear his voice and get to know him is to survive the assault on heavily fortified Japanese positions using the famous Higgins boats also called Landing Craft, Vehicle Personnel. Little does he know that these boats were created and made near where his grandfather died. These boats are the catalyst for winning the war. But, Nico Carolla the mafia boss a prostitute close to Hector who witnessed his death, named Kentucky Rose and another named Petunia add to the local color of the novel.
Code makers or code talkers are crucial to the plot. Enter Stanley Whitehorse a Navajo Indian who helped create this unbreakable code. The LCVP boats are handcrafted and made of plywood and can carry as the author relates on a few dozen men on one boat and they are built from steel. This boat can carry more men or huge pieces equipment that are mechanized like tanks. Reenter Nico Carolla and his family who although Mafia are revered, respected and help the locals in the community and fishermen aid the Allies against the fascist forces on their home turf. Brockdoff’s death does not go unnoticed and someone had sewn this Nazi codebook inside the lining of his shirt and Hector was told to resew it but with the intruder coming, demanding the book and his signet ring just who has the book, how will the codes be deciphered and what secrets will be told when someone breaks the code. How will this affect the war and the world?
Hearing the voice of Nick’s nonno or grandfather relating the truth behind his birth, his relationship to his brother Earl/Roberto and the truth about what happened during a poker game learning that he was set up by another crime family and was saved by his grandfather, Nick has a hard and fast decision to make as he learns more about his past and will have to deal with it in the future. Learning why his family has decided to help with the building of the Higgins boats, learning more about the enemy and then meeting and joining Brock Jr. and his team as they deal with the high waves, the poor conditions and the many who would not ever see shore, survive the war and some that become deathly ill. What is exciting about this book is that the reader is reading about real people and real events that happened during WWII as we meet the many Generals, Colonel, enlisted me and one that is singled out named Brock and his part in trying to save his men and find his way to shore.
Andrew Higgins is the president of Eureka Tug Boat Company and with him was Marine Colonel Peter Morgan. Discussing how fast Higgins could build his newest boat. As the author describes it and why it is needed the two argue time, money and constraints dealing with the land, the property and how it is configured. But, somewhere else and equally as important Nico is being filled in by his girlfriend Martina about a man coming to Lulu White’s door looking for his father and then killing Hector, cutting off his finger and taking the ring that was once on it. But, one thing distinguished this man that anyone witnessing this would not forget and that would be a specially made and expensive car.
Within the conversation the author reveals to readers and Nico that there is going to be a bombing but where? Are the Nazi’s planning to blow a factory and if so is it one that belongs to Nico and which one? Added in she presents him with a picture of someone connected to this but will not reveal who or how she came to get it? Trusts, loyalties, betrayals, greed, power and a war that would take hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides.
Shaun Yardley and Liam Fieldstone were meeting to talk about copies that had been distributed to Ian Fleming’s group at the Admiralty. They had reason to believe that Heinrich Himmler or someone close to this man created a certain communication of which there are four each one containing an anagram and one when deciphered would rock the world of Andrew Higgins and destroy one of his plants or more. As Captain Wilhelm Kronenhauer goes about setting charges that would destroy the Higgins boat company two Federal Marshalls learn of this plan, seek the help of someone that might identify the signet ring and the end result would change the course of events for both sides. As he was doing this Operation Torch was being implemented and what this would mean would be the liberation of continental Europe. But the impact would be in North Africa, British and American amphibious landings and American forces in three task forces.
Three deaths the first one an older man found and mutilated in a graphic manner the man was white. The second a scrawny black man shot twice with a rifle or shotgun and the final third one was a violent death along the onshore. So what do they have in common and why did they claim the first was of natural causes.
An ending quite explosive and the final fate of many unknown as codebooks, Navajo code talkers, the United States dealing with a mafia family supporting our efforts, Higgins boats, three dead bodies, a series of anagram messages and a meeting of International intelligence officers on board a ship and a group of Nazis planning to sabotage the landing craft famed for the steel ramp and a plot so vividly and brilliantly created by author Steven Burgauer as you the reader take a trip back in time to 1942 and enter the war, feel the heat, understand the trials and find out what happens when Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou implement their plan. But, will they succeed? Will they be stopped and what will the final as the final sentence says it all Wars are sometimes prosecuted or executed WWII is such a war. To learn why and more read this outstanding five star extensively researched novel.
I received a print copy of Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou by Steven Burgauer for review.
Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou is a work of fictionalized history. I learned a great many things about World War Two and the history of boats and such. What caught my interest with this book was the connection to the Louisiana Bayous, a region of the U.S. that fascinates me, I'm not usually a reader of war books.
Although Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou has as its backdrop WWII, I would not call it a "war book". What we read is intrigue around the development and production of the Higgins Boat, an amphibious landing craft. We have a Mafia connection, bad guy Germans, prostitutes, business people, politicians, spies, and everyday people. A lot of characters to keep straight but Mr. Burgauer (a German name if I'm not mistaken, hmm) does a fine job in that respect. I didn't find myself having to look back in the book to see who this or that person was.
Warning to the sensitive reader Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou is written in the language of the times. There are many instances of words which would be cut from a movie today; n-words, j-words, and various other "trigger" words (what a shame that even needs to be said).
Very mild sex (especially when you consider some of the action takes place in a brothel), lots of action and intrigue. Some graphic violence. Lots of history.
I really enjoyed Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou by Steven Burgauer. I recommend it for historical fiction fans, and even WWII enthusiasts (fans doesn't seem an appropriate word here), action and intrigue readers. Enjoy!
Mike
Interesting. I enjoyed the perspective.
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