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Allan Levine

"[Levine] has an easy style and can pack a wealth of information into a brief essay."
—Publishers Weekly

Now available again!

Fugitives of the Forest

A new edition of Fugitives of the Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War (1998) has been recently published in the United States (and distributed in Canada) by The Lyons Press, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press. This second edition includes a new introduction, addressing research on the history of Jewish partisans during the last decade. The book's publication coincides with the release of the major motion picture, "Defiance" (Paramount/Vintage) about the partisans and Tuvia Bielski and his brothers who saved 1,200 Jews in the forests of Belarus. The movie stars Daniel Craig (James Bond) as Tuvia Bielski as well as Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell and Alexa Davalos.

"I hope that Defiance will inspire [people] to learn more about the true story. They can read about it in Allan Levine's amazing book, Fugitives of the Forest. I couldn't believe these people's will to survive."— Actress Alexa Davalos, who plays Lilka Ticktin, the love and future wife of Tuvia Bielski.

"This is a story told just in time, for the many eye witnesses are dying every year now. But Levine carefully documents their accounts and reconstructs a powerful moment of triumph in the middle of the modern world's greatest catastrophe."— Doug Wead, U.S. presidential historian, philanthropist, and Special Assistant to U.S. President George H. W. Bush..

For more information about this book, click HERE.

Now available everywhere!
from Heartland Associates
A New Mystery

Evil of the Age
The Charles St. Clair Chronicles, Vol. I

In the sizzling summer of 1871, New Yorkers talk about only two things: a murdered woman cruelly stuffed into a trunk and Tammany Hall’s insidious corruption.
Journalist Charles St. Clair travels from the mansions of Fifth Avenue to the brothels of SoHo on the trail of both stories. But what he uncovers proves to be more shocking than even he ever imagined.

"Winnipeg's own Allan Levine takes his talents for historical mystery to 19th-century New York for this novel...Great research and great fun make this a winner."—Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail.

"One of the finest 'history mysteries' available today. Evil of the Age is an award-winning novel in waiting...Evil of the Age is history revealed in sordid and fascinating detail. It's also a mystery--a chilling and believable tale. It simply doesn't get any better than this."—Don Graves, The Hamilton Spectator. To read the entire review, click HERE. The review is about three quarters of the way down the page.

"Levine has done it again. He has seamlessly crafted an amazing mix of historical lore, credible views of the seamiest settings of old New York, an intertwined plot of murderous suspense and political corruption, and with a population of unique characters, good, bad, ugly and everything in between. For history/mystery fans it's a book that leaves its readers begging for the next of the St. Clair chronicles."
—M. Wayne Cunnigham, Mysterious Reviews. To read the entire review, click HERE.

Breaking News

• Watch for Coming of Age in 2009 a new popular history on Jewish life in Manitoba commissioned by the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada.

Readers are invited to e-mail me at: Alevine@sjr.mb.ca

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Updated on Feb.1, 2009