Horst Christian Books in Order

Growing up in Nazi Germany, Karl Veth encounters propaganda at school and compulsory participation in the Jungvolk. His father and grandfather encourage independent thought, forcing him to weigh conflicting lessons as war reshapes his childhood.

In early 1945, fourteen-year-old Karl Veth must evacuate more than 120 boys ahead of Soviet forces. Returning to bombed Berlin brings fresh demands, as his knowledge of subway tunnels makes him useful to the SS.

After Berlin falls, Karl Veth and Harold are arrested by Soviet soldiers and offered dangerous assignments instead of imprisonment. Their knowledge of the city's tunnels becomes a survival tool while Karl questions wartime propaganda and his own loyalties.

Karl Veth and Harold remain trapped in Soviet-occupied Berlin, carrying out missions for a political commissar in exchange for possible freedom. Searching for family and confronting personal losses test their friendship as they consider different futures.

In 1948, Harold Kellner carries out clandestine assignments for the Soviet commissar who has adopted him. Language studies with a Swiss banking family expose him to financial and political secrets, encouraging ambitions beyond his patron's plans.

After the war, fifteen-year-old Karl Veth tries to support his family in devastated Germany. His father insists he leave home and learn a trade, beginning a journey through work aboard a fishing vessel and demanding professional training.

Karl Veth leaves Germany for America in 1954 after surviving the war and completing his trade training. Finding work in New York begins a new chapter of cultural adjustment, entrepreneurial experiments, and opportunities in his adopted country.

Captain Heinrich Berger commands an untested submarine carrying Nazi scientists and secret research to Argentina as Germany collapses. Mechanical failures, illness, and dwindling supplies force his crew to weigh obedience against survival during their covert Atlantic crossing.

Samuel, Isabella, and Jonas leave Europe to build careers in Morocco, joining local partner Kader in a shared venture. Growing success brings government attention, international contracts, and mounting expectations that test their ambitions, judgment, and trust.

After eleven years in Soviet labor camps, Ludwig Bauer returns to a Germany rebuilt without him and a family that has moved on. Haunted by captivity and loss, he searches for belonging and a reason to begin again.