Fools, Angels and the Devil

Robert Faulk, a Canadian born on a farm and educated in a small rural school, grew up in a world of hard workers-men and women who farmed the land and harvested the forests and the sea with their hands. He studied engineering at university and worked in construction before taking his family to Germany to pursue a career as an opera singer. Over the next ten years, Robert met many Europeans willing to share still-fresh memories of the Second World War. He used their stories, often traumatic and deeply personal, to write a series of five books of historical fiction, "The Songs of War." The books expose the most contemptible cost of any war-the human cost.