An Incidental Nazi
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| Expected release date is Oct 27th 2026 |
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Product Details
Author:
Catherine Gillard
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
300
Publisher:
Histria Books (October 27, 2026)
Imprint:
Histria Fiction
Release Date:
October 27, 2026
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781592117727
ISBN-10:
1592117724
Weight:
10.03oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_05022026_P10038138_onix30_Complete-20260502.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$19.99
Pub Discount:
65
As low as:
$15.39
Publisher Identifier:
P-SS
Discount Code:
A
Overview
A choirboy, a conflicted conductor, and a mother torn between love and survival—The Incidental Nazi follows lives scattered across continents during World War II, where music offers both hope and escape. With rich emotional depth and morally complex characters, it shows how ordinary people navigate impossible choices, making it a story that resonates with readers who care about history, humanity, and the quiet power of art.
A lost boys’ choir, a furious mother, and a compromised conductor—one war, three continents, and a love of music that outlasts every betrayal.
In 1938 Vienna, music is the only bright thing left. For Wolf Strauss, a foundling with a clear, soaring voice, the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir is home, hope and escape. For Dr Georg Gruber, the brilliant choirmaster now wearing a Nazi uniform, it’s the last thing worth protecting as the world tilts toward catastrophe.
Half a world away in Melbourne, sharp, stubborn Bobby Marsh is being bruised by nuns, bosses and, most of all, her glamorous, terrifying mother Henny—keeper of secrets, smoker of shisha, and the woman who chooses the choir over her own child again and again.
When the choir is shipped out—Vienna to Hamburg, New York, Hawaii, then wartime Australia—their voices fill grand halls while their lives quietly fall apart. Boys are stranded, sorted and separated. Labels like “enemy alien” and “undesirable race” land harder than any cane.
Told with the emotional bite of books like The Nightingale, The Incidental Nazi follows Bobby, Wolf and Georg across years of exile, forbidden love, and hard-won survival—held together, just barely, by the music they refuse to surrender.
A lost boys’ choir, a furious mother, and a compromised conductor—one war, three continents, and a love of music that outlasts every betrayal.
In 1938 Vienna, music is the only bright thing left. For Wolf Strauss, a foundling with a clear, soaring voice, the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir is home, hope and escape. For Dr Georg Gruber, the brilliant choirmaster now wearing a Nazi uniform, it’s the last thing worth protecting as the world tilts toward catastrophe.
Half a world away in Melbourne, sharp, stubborn Bobby Marsh is being bruised by nuns, bosses and, most of all, her glamorous, terrifying mother Henny—keeper of secrets, smoker of shisha, and the woman who chooses the choir over her own child again and again.
When the choir is shipped out—Vienna to Hamburg, New York, Hawaii, then wartime Australia—their voices fill grand halls while their lives quietly fall apart. Boys are stranded, sorted and separated. Labels like “enemy alien” and “undesirable race” land harder than any cane.
Told with the emotional bite of books like The Nightingale, The Incidental Nazi follows Bobby, Wolf and Georg across years of exile, forbidden love, and hard-won survival—held together, just barely, by the music they refuse to surrender.
