LITTLE ANTON: A HISTORICAL NOVEL
The Three-Volume Set by John W. Warner IV
Little Anton is a gripping historical novel series that discloses covert technological inventions and the prominent leaders who exploited them during the turbulent years leading up to WWII and the Battle of Norway in 1940. Part love story and part satire, the book masterfully interweaves a fictional adventure within factual reportage, revealing in greater detail why Adolf Hitler tasked his personal hero Professor Ferdinand Porsche and his brilliant engineering mind to build the world’s fastest, almost invincible race cars and potent military machines.
The book tracks the life of Dr. Ferdinand Porsche while Hitler rises to power. Porsche and his family are pacifists, but like many industrialist families they get caught up in Germany’s “economic miracle” during the Great Depression and its aftermath. With Hitler’s patronage, Porsche becomes Germany’s heralded “Reich Designer,” creating the Volkswagen Beetle and Auto Union’s futuristic Grand Prix racing cars, which later evolved into the Audi car brand after WWII.
Along with Dr. Porsche, the central characters are the fictional Lady Beatrice Sunderland (Bea), an irreverent and naughty British aristocrat, and Lutz Becker, a dashing young Bavarian race car driver from quite humble origins. These two madcap star-crossed opposites eventually intertwine by the time war breaks out, the attraction as inevitable as the fearsome conflict itself.
