Two Brothers

By: Ben Elton

Narrated by: Jot Davies

Brought to you by Penguin.

Bestselling author Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.

Berlin 1920

Two babies are born.

Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood.

As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice... Which one of them will survive?

© Ben Elton 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2012

Brilliant story & well read

What a great story… simple maybe but very engaging and entertaining. I really enjoyed it.

BRITISH NARRATOR.

I found it very disconcerting to hear different BRITISH accents for different GERMAN characters. The story takes place almost totally in Germany. The narrator was very good for an English book. I would have enjoyed the characters to have had German accents.
I loved the book!

Brilliant!

I found this story so powerful. I felt like I was right there during WWII. And the ending just blew me away.

THE BEST READ THIS YEAR

Where does Two Brothers rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This one I rank in my top 5 collection.

Who was your favorite character and why?

You cannot have one favourite character in this book. You get so attached to Paulus, Otto, Zilka and Dagmar.

What does Jot Davies bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

his accents are brilliant wich helps you distinguish wich character is wich.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

2 Brothers together while worlds fall apart.

Any additional comments?

I don't get emotional in books until I read this one. I find myself pondering over it for days. It really plucked at my emotional heart strings. Thank you for a great listen.

as good as The First Casualty

I find Ben's historic novels fascinating. This is well written as well as a great story (i was born in Germany but move away 30 years ago and therefore I could be a bit biased to the story).

The main characters might be a bit 1 dimensional but it seems to work for the story and you don't notice it unless one sits back to analyse the story (like when writing a review).

If you like his previous book about WW1 then you will love this one. If you have not read that just don't expect black adder and you will get a lot out of it