Five, third draft manuscripts went out to the local, volunteer editors.  This novel went nearly 600 pages, try as I did to keep it under 400.  I suppose, depending on the return comments, I could thin it a bit.  I hope to have books at Hostfest, end of September, despite the busy summer.  This novel took about eight month to research and write.  Hope it isn't a disappointment to the many readers who stop by to say nice things about the stories.

For the most part, I'm pleased with the story line.  Perhaps, in some areas, especially the female protagonist Alena's part, it dwells a little too much on the statistics and commentary about her work as a nurse in assorted Nazi euthanasia facilities. 
But then, those people were special in that they could perform murder in the name of health of a nation.  That personality had to come out.

I hope to use a cover photo from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archives and may add a couple more for affect.  A couple of gentlemen, one in British Columbia and the other in Switzerland, have consented to let me use one photo from their website of a camp in Austria for displaced children where one of them was interred.

I have come to believe, after researching this novel, that the work done after WW-II by the UNRRA and Marshal Plan, is second only to the effort expended to win the war.