⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you to NetGalley and American Legacy Media for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of For Malice and Mercy by Gary W. Toyn.
This is an incredible story, amazingly researched and so educational. Slow to begin with, but as we begin to become more familiar with all the characters, we are quickly immersed into their lives and the story speeds up.
The story begins as the US entered World War II, having no choice once the Japanese, bomb Pearl Harbour. For Malice and Mercy is written primarily from the point of view of the American/German Meyer family, Karl and Marta Meyer, and their children, Hank and Ella. Hank enlists in the US Army Air Corps and Ella trains and qualifies as a nurse. We follow their story as the war progresses and the horrific events that happen to some of them because of their German background.
After reading any fiction about World War II, I always come away having learned something I wasn’t aware of and this is definitely true with Toyn’s book. I didn’t realise that there would have been German citizens living in the US at this time, let alone that they were treated so badly by a country they had come to call home.
I thoroughly recommend For Malice and Mercy to anyone who has an interest in World War II and the additional chapter notes the author has included delve into more detail as to how and why certain events happened and the people who were affected.
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