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Opening your find
Fall 1942. The bridge falls. So does everything else. Thirteen German saboteurs slip behind Soviet lines to destroy a single bridge feeding ammunition into Stalingrad. The mission succeeds in minutes. Surviving it takes everything else. What follows isn't a story about heroes — it's about the men left behind once the ideology stops mattering.
Captured and shipped to a Gulag mine in the Urals, they trade one war for another: hunger, betrayal, and a tunnel that may not lead anywhere at all.
Told through the alternating voices of the men who lived it — soldiers, a Soviet defector with nothing left to lose, and interrogators on both sides who never learn the whole truth — Deeper Than Darkness asks what's left of a person once the flag, the oath, and the enemy all stop meaning anything. There are no clean sides in this story.
Only the ones who make it out — and the ones who don't get to choose how. "A war novel for readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Book Thief - but without the mercy."
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