REVIEW - A timeless thought-content, a great book

I have received Mr Fischer's book 'In Search of a Revolution' as a present during a book signing event in Kensington. I have read books of this writer before, i.e. 'The Luck of the Weissensteiners', another very well researched historical novel which I've enjoyed very much. The thought content of this book is timeless; is any ideology worth dying for to make the world a better and fairer place? Zacharias, a young man from a rather wealthy background, Ansgar, the son of a pig farmer and Raisa, a Nurse who had taken care of Zacharias. Three young people with different political views and social backgrounds, communist and conservative as well as fascist, living through the time from the Finnish Revolution until after the IInd WW, their relationship-triangle attached to the political circumstances of their times. The characters offering the enthusiastic idealism which often is in conflict with banal reality. Actions justified by wanting to make the world a better place. Mr Fischer takes the reader to different places and times, extraordinary times in history and such, with great insight and understanding, leads to reflecting our own position at a place and time in history. A book very well researched and delivered. The writer, a great story teller, never forgetting the individual as being part of the history they are living in. I have great respect for the honesty with which Mr Fischer exposes political circumstances, making his characters facing up to them and, ultimately solidarising with them. A great book which, I think, shows Mr Fischer's true ability: bringing history to life and giving it a human face!