02617cim a2200385 i 4500 2603626757 TxAuBib 20201027120000.0 r 251001s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798875129063 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT16874948 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Koch, Katherine, author. The Sower of Black Field [Hoopla] / Katherine Koch. Unabridged. [United States : Time's Arrow Press, 2024. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 09 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Joanna Teljeur. Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule. Relying upon his ingenuity to keep them out of prison, Fr. Viktor solicits aid from an unlikely intercessor-the Nazi charity worker who confiscated his monastery for state purposes. In April 1945, American liberators make a gruesome discovery: the SS have left a mass grave of concentration camp victims on Schwarzenfeld's borders. Enraged by the sight, the infantry commander orders the townspeople to disinter 140 corpses, construct coffins despite material shortages, dig a grave trench, and hold a funeral ceremony-all in 24 hours. If they fail to fulfill this ultimatum, he vows to execute all German men in town. Fr. Viktor has to pull off a miracle: he must convince his countrymen that his followers are not the enemy. Their humanity is intact. And most of all, they are innocent. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. History Fiction. Fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. Teljeur, Joanna, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16874948?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hhh711 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/aut_9798875129063_180.jpeg Cover image RV8