Goodnight from Berlin

A gripping tale of moral courage in the shadow of victory--where the end of war begins history's most perilous reckoning.
With Hitler's suicide marking the end of the Third Reich and chaos consuming a shattered Germany, Captain Edward Hume continues to lead his bomb disposal squad--The Kaboom Boys--through the deadly aftermath of victory. What began as a coal miner's son seeking adventure far from Pennsylvania has become a mission to save lives in a world still bristling with unexploded ordnance and Nazi "werewolf" fighters who refuse to surrender.
Their work grows deadlier each day--while other soldiers celebrate, Hume's men face booby traps and ticking bombs left behind by a crumbling Reich.
Then comes the mission that will define them all: Hume is ordered to escort Dr. Ernst Alwin, an evil but brilliant Nazi scientist, now a prisoner, who spent the war designing weapons specifically to kill Allied bomb disposal experts, across war-torn Europe to America.
Racing through a landscape of devastation with the very man who tried to kill soldiers like him, Hume confronts impossible choices. His best friend faces accusations of treason at Dachau. The Nuremberg Trials demand his testimony about the horrors he's witnessed. And somewhere in the chaos, an Army nurse from Normandy waits for his return--if he survives the gauntlet ahead.
With the weight of history and the promise of peace hanging in the balance, Edward and his men discover that sometimes the most perilous battles come after the war is won.

About the author

Elaine Hume Peake was born on Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland, the site of the first United States Army Bomb Disposal testing and training base. Here her father, Captain Edward Hume learned the fundamentals of BD and became part of the first American army ordnance squads of World War II, setting the stage for the origins of the historical drama series, "The Kaboom Boys".
Elaine studied journalism/mass communications at Towson State University leading her to a multi-year career in television news. She received multiple journalism awards including Emmys and the George Foster Peabody Award for her 9/11 coverage.
Elaine lives in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee with her husband Christopher where she writes and has been enjoying life with their precious golden retriever Lucia.
Don Keith is a native Alabamian and attended the University of Alabama where he received his degree in broadcast and film. He has received awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for newswriting and reporting. He is also the only person to be named Billboard Magazine "Radio Personality of the Year" in two formats, country and contemporary. Keith was a broadcast personality for over twenty years, owned his own consultancy, co-owned a Mobile, Alabama, radio station, and hosted and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.
His first novel, "The Forever Season." received the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award. Keith has written extensively on historical subjects including World War II, submarine warfare, and fiction, biographies, and non-fiction works on a variety of subjects. He has published more than forty books, two of which--HUNTER KILLER and COLORS OF CHARACTER--have been adapted for the screen.
Mr. Keith lives with his wife, Charlene, in Indian Springs Village, Alabama.

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Hume Peake, Don Keith
• Publisher: Severn River Publishing LLC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.12.2026
• EAN: 9781648757204
• ISBN: 978-1-64875-720-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature