Setting sail for a new business (ad)venture is always a challenge. This holds especially true when the elderly embark on projects and technologies they have yet to become familiar with.
We are, therefore, pleased (if not relieved!) to be able to present to you our opus I, our first book publication (with more to follow soon). And what a story it has to tell:
Hitler and Stalin are supposed to have met ?
Personally ? ?
Only months before the start of World War II ? ? ?
Impossible !
Inconceivable ! !
Utterly unimaginable ! ! !
Say the experts.
And yet . . .
Please note that this book is currently available in German. An english version is planned for autumn 2023.
Interested English language publishers are invited to contact us.
More on the story:
April 1939. A young latvian hobby photographer is approached at a Baltic coastal village near Riga by an impeccably attired elderly stranger who shows an interest in his architectural photography. At a meeting the next day, the stranger asks the young man to help him find a suitable venue for a top secret meeting of two very high ranking foreign delegations. When the young man shows himself willing to help, he is promptly invited to cater to the two delegations described by the stranger as being very small.
After the war, Stalin has the caterer hunted for; he wants to prevent the meeting from becoming public at all costs. In March 1953, the man is finally apprehended in Riga.
Ten years after his death, his son, a rather chauvinistic history professor finds the father's dossier on the meeting. He immediately Upon reading it, he immediately realizes that he has just found the missing link surrounding the beginnings of the Second World War, especially why the German-Soviet Non-Proliferation Treaty was negotiated in such an incredibly short time, why Stalin initially suspected a communication foul by his generals when they informed him of Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, and why a simple German school atlas became historic.
On top of all that, he discovers his father's true identity and grows to realize that he himself isn't the person he has seen himself himself to be his whole life long. He publishes the dossier and lands a non-fiction bestseller. Later, based on his own experience, he adds a substantial section to the inevitable second edition of his book on some of the media's more than casual approach to history.
Now, what, you may ask, has that got to do with Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin?
Well, just read the book. You'll be surprised (or feel confirmed)!