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As Presidential Agent 103, Lanny Budd witnesses the collapse of the Nazis, the bombing of Hiroshima, and the Nuremberg Trials in this novel in the Pulitzer Prize–winning saga.
As a spy for President Franklin Roosevelt, Lanny Budd was able to infiltrate the inner circle of the Nazi high command and glean essential information on behalf of the Allied cause. Now, as the terrible global conflict approaches its long-awaited conclusion, the newly commissioned Captain Budd of the US Army is on hand to witness the final collapse of the Third Reich in the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge.
The nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brings World War II to an end, but not even the death of Franklin Roosevelt can release Lanny from his obligations as Presidential Agent 103. A devastated Europe needs to be rebuilt, and there is a necessary reckoning still to come in the heart of defeated Germany, where the fanatics who murdered countless millions will stand trial for their crimes.
O Shepherd, Speak! is the penultimate volume of Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatization of twentieth-century world history. An astonishing mix of adventure, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.
- Sales Rank: #684 in eBooks
- Published on: 2016-01-19
- Released on: 2016-01-19
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Praise for the Lanny Budd Novels
“These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history. . . . Sinclair’s historical acumen and his calculations about powerful institutions—government, press, corporations, oil cartels and lobbyists—remain remarkably shrewd and often prescient.” —The New York Times
“Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human.” —Time
“When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime, I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Upton Sinclair’s] novels.” —George Bernard Shaw
“A great and well-balanced design . . . I think it the completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done.” —H. G. Wells
About the Author
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism; and the eleven novels in the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Lanny Budd ends with a thud.
By Arlo
I have greatly enjoyed the series, but this one doesn't live up to the rest. In all previous books the characters have been intelligent and thoughtful about their world and it's events, but now they just forget everything they passed through and blame war on capitalism and overpopulation. Did they think that Hitler, Alexander the Great, and Genghis Khan, were pushed into war by their capitalist masters? Was overpopulation the cause of the American Civil war or Napoleonic conflicts? No, and it lowered my enjoyment to read Sinclair forcing his characters into such propaganda instead of letting the history speak for itself.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
The End of World War II and the Capitulation to Stalin
By Johns
This was to be the final book of the World's End series. It wraps things up nicely and sets the stage for the Cold War.
O Shepherd Speak sees President Roosevelt becoming worried by the actions of Joseph Stalin. The book reveals how Allied foreign policy was to avoid offending Stalin. General Patton avoids liberating Czechoslovakia, so as not to offend Stalin, for example. Harry Hopkins remains very optimistic about Stalin and visits him. Later, President Truman meets Stalin at Potsdam, and then disbands the US Army and Air Force. Regardless of any Soviet threat, soldiers wanted to return home, as there might not be enough jobs to go round and those who went home first would get the pick of the jobs.
Lanny Budd enters the Dachau concentration camp and hears some eyewitness accounts of what transpired there. Meanwhile in post-war Berlin American authorities are happy to have ex-Nazis in charge again. In Soviet East Berlin the book reports that any socialist who didn't join the Socialist Unity Party disappeared.
The book takes the reader inside Los Alamos to witness the atom bomb test. In the acknowledgments, General Leslie A. Groves is credited, "who read and checked the chapter having to do with the New Mexico bomb test."
Evidently by the time he came to write this book, Upton Sinclair no longer had any Communist sympathies. Lanny Budd spends his time trying to convince Roosevelt, and later Truman, that Stalin is motivated by the idea of world conquest.
There's more in the book too, e.g. the reader is taken inside the Battle of the Bulge, plus Herman Goring makes a memorable appearance at the Nuremberg trials, and the spirit of Henri Bergson appears at a seance to relate how "continuous creation of unforeseen novelty" occurs in the universe.
So, another solid entry in the World's End series, but slightly anti-climactic.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Historical Fiction that Sounds More Like History - A Classic
By Bill Anderson
Quick & Dirty Highlights
There is a reason Upton Sinclair won the Pulitzer for his fiction. All too infrequently in these modern times, writers will attempt to weave fact and fiction into a seamless tapestry that educates us while entertaining us.
Length: Print, 548 pages.
Target Audience/Genre: Historical Fiction.
Q - How was this book obtained?
A - Bought on Amazon.
Q - Is this a book that I can read without having to read others first?
A – Yes, but this is the tenth book in an 11-book series. I highly recommend starting with the first book in the series.
Q - Are there a lot of typos/misspellings, grammatical errors or other editing failures?
A – No.
Q - Is this a fast, easy read or is it more of a leisure read?
A – This and the series are the fine wine of literature. You want to savor these stories.
Q - What sort of language does this writer use to amplify the points made?
A – Plain English, but a cut above the quality of English used in modern writing. Fortunately, tapping on any words my limited vocabulary can't fathom, I can quickly suss out the meaning and carry on. My point is, I admire authors who can expand my mental dictionary.
Q - What age group is this suitable for?
A - Young Adult and older.
Q - My biggest pleasure or disappointment?
A - I only wish I had started reading Upton years ago. I love the way Upton was able to describe scenes and stitch a story together that, had I not known better, had the authenticity of real life. I mean, it sounds more like history than fiction. Thoroughly plausible.
I’ve included a small excerpt below, so readers can peruse the style of presentation utilized by the author.
EXCERPT
'...Photographs in Heisenberg’s office showed an amiable and not too large person with somewhat unruly hair.
Lanny had captured the Swabian town of Urach, and now he was going to capture the Bavarian town of Urfeld. The syllable “Ur” means aged, having to do with one’s remote ancestors; it is a difference between America and Europe that on the old continent the most delightful summer resorts may have buildings and history going back five or six or more centuries. In many valleys along the northern Alpine slopes are lovely little blue lakes, and Munich is fortunate in having a score of them within easy reach. There couldn’t have been a pleasanter motor trip; only two or three shots were fired at them, and they might have taken great numbers of prisoners if they hadn’t had more important work in hand.
They traveled fast, not stopping for anything. They cut up into the foothills to avoid Munich. They had passed not far from Dachau, but had no way of knowing what had happened or might be happening there. Americans had found it difficult to believe the atrocity stories, but now that they were liberating one after another of these packed concentration camps they were horrified by the conditions they found.
XIV
They raced into the small town of Urfeld, on the Walchensee a lake three or four miles long, at the head of that River Isar which flows through Munich, and down whose clear green waters Lanny had once been floated on a great raft, in company with a score of Nazi Bonzen, a picnic party with baskets of Leberwurst sandwiches and a cask of beer. That had been in the days of “Munich”—in the special sense of the name which history will always remember. Lanny had motored through this pleasureland, enjoying the good life which fate had assigned to him.
Now he and his party came...'
Excerpt 2
[This excerpt demonstrates how Sinclair uses dialogue to convey key points]
' "...the story should be told, and I think when I report to my superiors they will say the same.”
"All right; then I will tell it.”
"It would be my idea that you should accept Göring’s invitation to appear as a witness for him. Tell frankly what you know about his attitude; tell anything in his favor that you wish—it can’t do any harm. Then let the story of Solomon Hellstein be brought out under cross-examination. Its impact will be greatly increased that way, and since you are their witness, Göring’s lawyers will not be permitted to try to impeach your testimony.”
"I would much rather they were permitted, Colonel. The story is true, and I have nothing to fear from cross-examination. How soon would I be called?”
"The prosecution is closing, and Göring will be the first of the defendants to present his case. We should have to fly you...'
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