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The Losing Role by Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Steve Anderson; Steve Anderson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Losing Role about?

**A German actor tries to escape a doomed secret mission.**In the last winter of WWII a failed German actor, Max Kaspar, is forced to join an absurdly desperate secret mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer. So Max cooks up his own fanatical plan — he'll use his false identity to escape tyranny and war and flee to the America he'd once abandoned. *The Losing Role* is based on an actual false flag operation during 1944's Battle of the Bulge that's been made infamous in legend but in reality was a doomed farce. In all the tragic details and with some dark humor, this is the story of an aspiring talent who got in over his head and tried to break free. *The Losing Role* is the prequel to *Liberated: A Novel of Germany, 1945*—Max Kaspar is the older brother of German-American US Army captain Harry Kaspar in *Liberated*. The third novel in the series, *Lost Kin*, reunites the estranged Kaspar brothers in 1946 Munich. "The book's pacing and dialogue are sharply turned ... Anderson skillfully portrays transformation in all of his characters." —Historical Novel Society "A touching yet painful story ... [Max] is human in the face of hardship and choses to continue liv

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Steve Anderson; Steve Anderson
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9781453855454
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Thriller, History
Rating
3.61 / 5 (80 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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