Swingate

In the tradition of such literary giants as Herman Wouk, Leon Uris and James Michener, Dennis Carstens has authored an exceptional, marvelously well written and can't-put-down story of the time when Britain stood alone against the Nazis in WWII.

Swingate is an accurate and graphic historical romance novel. One that is equally appealing to men and women both young and older.

Jeffrey Bartlett is a mostly dilettante New Yorker from a rich Gold Coast family. And a bit of a ladies-man playboy. He is also a very good reporter for a fictional New York newspaper, The Guardian. In April of 1940, a few weeks before Hitler's armies attack the British and French, Jeff is sent to London to report on the war.

Shortly after arriving, he is stabbed straight through the heart when he sees a woman at Parliament. He sees, then meets then falls head over heels for a British woman, Catherine Hartley, a reporter for the BBC. This is their story and the story of life in London when Britain stood alone and saved Western Civilization.

Jeff and Catherine are fictional characters. Theirs is a romance set in London during Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the first phase of the London bombing known as the Blitz. It is a romance that any of us would love to have happen for us.

The main historical events and the main historical figures are real. Many, not all, of the wartime occurrences took place as written. Others are for effect to give the reader a sense of what the people of London lived through.