Rod Dreher is hard at work on a book about “Weimar America.” The disquieting trends that trouble Dreher – rising anti-Semitism and social alienation, the decline of Christianity, and the likelihood of civilizational war – are also the subject, in a different context, of Kruger’s Korps, my most recent book, which I’d like to tell you about because there’s more to it than its cover of spiraling Lugers might imply.
On the face of it, Kruger’s Korps is a breathless World War II action-adventure story about American spies penetrating the German Afrika Korps. At that level, I’d like to think it offers high-caliber entertainment and has everything a reader would want from that genre: battles, mystery, a beautiful woman, shocking plot twists.
And it has some things – in fact, a lot of things – you would not expect to find, including references to Nietzsche and Ernst Jünger; a guest appearance by Fr. Marcel Lefebvre (!); and a good deal of humor.
But this is also, in some ways, a tragic book. The Fatherland plays a big role in it, of course, but so does fatherhood – both the nobility of fatherhood and the tragedy of it. Without giving too
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