These reviews are of the first volume of the trilogy
5 stars Great read, December 1, 2009
By Erin Kimmel (Denver, CO)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A true story that you would not believe – the account of an American serving in the Red Army fighting against the Germans. I would definitely recommend you read this!
5 stars A most remarkable story, October 11, 2009
By William M. Timpson (Fort Collins, Colorado)
I can’t imagine that there is another story quite like this, this big and this dramatic, and it’s all true. At a time in history when immigrants were still flooding into the U.S., a young Nicholas went with his family back to their native Russia when his father answered the call to return to the motherland. When the Germans attacked the U.S.S.R., Nicholas, though still under-aged, found his way into the Red Army and quickly became a commander of an elite group of tankists trained to get behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. This is the kind of big story, an epic that some filmmaker will undoubtedly make for the big screen. I just hope that Nicholas is hard at work at Volume Two.
5 stars remarkable, October 7, 2009
By Al Di (Boston, MA)
History always was a subject of interpretation and distortion, but in that book we could see the point of view not from outside the circumstances, but from inside what really existed, from inside what really happened. Written not by academic [in] complicated language, but by the language filled with a real life. And it is really remarkable. Would be interested to read continuing in the next additional publications.
5 stars
By S. Ryabicheva, September 30, 2009
The tale of love and war is warm, human and full of both the genuine decency of its author, which shines through every page, and the horror of the carnage he so movingly describes. Here you have a story of a very unusual life, lived through the bloodiest war in the history of humankind and the Depression years of his childhood leading up to it. My hope is that it will convey to future generations the terrible price paid by ordinary People swept up in war. I’d like to know what happened to Nicholas from November 1943 to May 1945.
5 stars It’s love and war, September 26, 2009
By Olga Podshivalova (Boston, MA USA)
The Love and War written by M.J. Nicholas is a really gripping story. It’s an emotional roller coaster of a story – real happiness and real sadness or horror at the descriptions of the awful carnage of the Battle of Kursk and the other engagements. The stories epitomize Love and War, as they are meant to. Not only is it very well-written; it also holds the interest of anyone, even the general reader, should they happen to pick up and leaf through the book.
5 stars Love and War, September 25, 2009
By N. Smigel “NSL” (Newton, MA USA)
I could not put down the book written by M. J. Nicholas. It has everything that moves us – love, war and real history. I can’t wait to see PART TWO of this book.
5 stars A Real Portrayal of War, September 19, 2009
By Doctor Yes “Flash” (Boston, MA, USA)
M.J. Nicholas’s “Love and War” is a real, honest portrayal of war as it is: very destructive of human beings and their hopes and aspirations. Besides offering an absorbing view of war, it tells us of Nicholas’s great love in the midst of the carnage. Book One relates Nicholas’s boyhood in America; his attempts at enlistment into the Red Army; his success and the horrible experiences which followed, which, however, resulted in a triumph over Nazism. I can hardly wait for Book Two, where the fate of Nicholas’s wartime romance will be revealed and the war story brought to its conclusion.
