A review by kmthomas06
Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson

4.0

It has been a long time since I read a book about the Holocaust and I appreciated the very different tone to this one. Told in flashbacks by a man trying to convince a lawyer to take his case and the modern day struggle to prove a Nazi criminal has been hiding as a prominent citizen, masquerading as a Holocaust survivor himself, in Chicago, the book takes a very factual tone, since the flashbacks are primarily to give the lawyer the proof she needs to take the case to trial. At times, that made it a little dry but the love story at the heart of all the tragedy kept the story from becoming too bogged down. And, impressively, the story ends on a happy note. Justice is served which is all one can ask for a story like that and very satisfactorily so.