Dancing on Moses — James Walker

Well, if I am to write the article that you propose in your letter, I will need to have some first hand experience of what is being achieved in Palestine. Besides, it will soon be spring. I am a traveller by nature, and I am sure that Palestine must be a fascinating place... This is an original and compelling novel set in Nazi Germany and Palestine in the 1933-1945 era, related in the first person by Baron Otto Buren, a prominent Nazi, who undertakes a journey to Palestine to observe the progress being made there by the Zionist movement. Rebecca, who is a beautiful half-Jew, is one of his fellow travellers and they strike up a rapport with one another, which ultimately has fateful consequences for both of them in the dying days of the Third Reich. It is on the streets of Berlin and then on the streets of Prague as its German garrison fights Czech partisans that the novel reaches its heartfelt climax. However, many years later....