WWII Novels

Publishers Weekly Review!

| Ted Wheeler

Last week the new Publishers Weekly hit shelves and featured a glowing review for The War Begins in Paris!

You can read the entire review in the September 25, 2023 issue or on their website. In the meantime, here are some highlights:

Wheeler delivers an evocative and well-crafted story of two American journalists on a potentially fatal collision course in WWII Europe.

He effectively makes uses of the Damoclean sword he’s devised to maintain suspense, and the book’s ornate prose captures the period’s unsettling combination of horror and progress…

This is one to savor. 

Timothy Schaffert Blurb

| Ted Wheeler

I’m so honored to share this fantastic endorsement for The War Begins in Paris from one of my favorite novelists (and the godfather of Nebraska authors) Timothy Schaffert!

His Paris novel, The Perfume Thief, is so charming, and being in conversation with Timothy about The Perfume Thief was my highlight of the last Omaha Lit Fest we did in back 2021. I can’t wait for his new novel, The Titanic Survivors Book Club, which is due out in April.

“This vivid novel takes on one of my favorite subjects: journalists in the war zone. Here we have ‘radio traitors’ among them, everybody wound tight, with questions of truth and trust all caught up in threat and propaganda. With fascinating parallels to our own cultural moment, The War Begins in Paris is a captivating and vibrant—and utterly present—portrait of chaos.”

—Timothy Schaffert, author of The Perfume Thief