The Long War
The novels – Spirit Falls, Wounded, The Executioner’s Son, The Berlin Story, and Redemption – that make up The Long War cycle
Research Suzdal, The Executioner’s Son
Suzdal, Northeast Russia, Early 1950s by Robert Townsend This article is a working document—background research assembled to keep the fiction honest. It draws on Russian-language sources, Memorial Society databases, German...
Spirit Falls, Novel 1 in ‘The Long War’ series
Two children. One wilderness. A friendship that becomes their salvation. The Korean War rages far across the ocean, but in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, six-year-old Marie-Jeanne Charbonneau walks into the...
Redemption
Soldier, Son, Father, Husband Yonder man, while his spirit was diseased, Himself had joy in his own evil plight, Though to us, who were sane, he brought distress. But now, since he has...
Wounded, Novel 2 in ‘The Long War’ series
The second novel in The Long War series A sweeping tale of exile, hope, and resilience, WOUNDED Book Two of The Long War saga. In the spring of 1960, tragedy...
