Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2024 #Potluck – Book Review by Terry Tyler – Buried in the Past by Anna Legat

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life.

Welcome to the series Posts from Your Archives and I will be sharing posts from the SECOND six months of 2023 from your archives.

If you wish to be included the information is at the the end of the following post which is from the previous series, and shows you what it will look like.

This is the second post by author Terry Tyler and it is one of her reviews from the end of 2023 and one I will certainly be reading.. You can find more on her dedicated review website: Terry Tyler Book Reviews

Buried in the Past by Anna Legat

On Amazon (universal link)
On Goodreads

How I discovered this book: I’ve enjoyed others by this author so thought I’d try this one!

In a Nutshell: A novel about the Polish partisans of WWII, and a mystery surrounding an unmarked grave, waiting to be solved fifty years later.

This is a terrific book that taught me much I didn’t know about Poland eighty years ago – I didn’t realise that, during World War II, Russia was considered as much an enemy as Nazi Germany, or why. I read the second half of the book in one afternoon; I was utterly gripped.

The main timeline of the story concerns Edek and Szymon, two young lads wanting to join the partisans (or Home Army). Now and again, we move forward a few decades and meet Dorota, who is fascinated by and determined to solve the mysteries surrounding her family … and the identity of a body in an unmarked grave.

The mystery side of the story was well thought out and provided a completely unexpected outcome, but I found the chapters set during the war the most compelling. It is so hard for us to comprehend the hardship people endured in their daily lives less than a century ago, and what they were prepared to suffer for the sake of their country, what they would risk to help their friends; this novel really brought home the terror of Nazi occupation, and the bravery of the persecuted people of that time and place. The Warsaw uprising, the stealing of munitions from the local German garrison, a thrilling escape from one of the cattle trucks heading to Auschwitz, the annihilation of whole villages, the murder of so many innocents.

Highly recommended!

©Terry Tyler 2023

My thanks to Terry for letting me share posts from her archives and I know she would love to hear from you..

A small selection of books by Terry Tyler

One of the reviews for Infected the first book in Terry’s latest excellent series.

Rackman A satisfying zombie apocalypse intro.

First of all, Terry Tyler is one of my favourite storytellers in any genre and I’ve devoured her recent post-apocalyptic dramas with gusto! I applauded her approach to this genre in previous reviews due to the concentration on the human characters and response to the destruction of organised society by a deadly virus.

With this new series, Tyler’s post-apocalyptic journey finally hits the ‘zombie’ track, and it’s setting up to be a winner. Reflecting popular portrayals like The Walking Dead, it follows a disparate selection of the usual well-drawn characters trying to escape and survive while society around them succumbs to the deadly virus.

This author has a particular skill in describing people and situations with a few deft strokes of the pen and avoids falling into tropes of blood and gore associated with this genre, leaving much to the lurid imaginations of the reader and keeping the story moving at a brisk pace.

Like most of her work, this is written in a clean, efficient style that keeps you turning the pages. I look forward to the rest of this series, although with some trepidation!

Read the reviews and buy the books:Amazon UK – And : Amazon US – Follow Terry Tyler: Goodreads – Blog: Terry Tyler Blogspot – Twitter:@TerryTyler4

About Terry Tyler

Terry Tyler is the author of twenty-six books available from Amazon, the latest being ‘Infected’ and ‘Darkness’, Books 1 and 2 of her new SFV-1 series, about a rage virus. Other recent publications include ‘Where There’s Doubt’, about a romance scammer, and ‘Megacity’, the final book in the dystopian Operation Galton trilogy. Happy to be independently published, Terry is an avid reader and book reviewer, and a member of Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team.

Terry is a Walking Dead addict, and has a great interest in history (particularly Saxon, Plantagenet and Tudor), along with books and documentaries on sociological/cultural/anthropological subject matter. She loves South Park, the sea, and going for long walks in quiet places where there are lots of trees. She lives in the north east of England with her husband.

How to feature in the series?

All I need you to do is give me permission to dive in to your archives and find two posts to share here on Smorgasbord either by leaving a note in the comments or by emailing me. (sally.cronin@moyhill.com)
Rather than a set topic, I will select posts at random of general interest across a number of subjects from the last six months of 2023. (it is helpful if you have a link to your archives in your sidebar by month)
As I will be promoting your books as part of the post along with all your information and links so I will not be sharing direct marketing or self- promotional posts in the series.
If you are an author I am sure you will have a page on your blog with the details, and an ‘about page’ with your profile and social media links (always a good idea anyway). I will get everything that I need.
As a blogger I would assume that you have an ‘about page’ a profile photo and your links to social media.
Previous participants are very welcome to take part again.
Each post is reformatted for my blog and I don’t cut and paste, this means it might look different from your own post especially if you are using the block editor

N.B – To get the maximum benefit from your archive posts, the only thing I ask is that you respond to comments individually and share on your own social media.. thank you.