A towering French dame totally ignores the law and environment, cheerfully smokes the sky and personifies the USA. A little Belgian schmendrick holds the same disregard, joyfully piddles the downtown and personifies the European Union. This novel's piddler personifies nobody and tactfully says nothing about Brussels' pee drinkers.
     History knows no shortest, most horrible and intense schlock than the Kursk Battle -- all bloodbaths' little-known schlepp mother that saved Yanks and Britons in Italy.
     1941. Fuhrer teaches geography to Roma, three. His dad, the Red Army's lieutenant, saves him from Kiev's noted 36-hour slaughter orgy of Jews. The boy grows up in Dad's Rearguard advancing from Kursk to Germany.
     His emotional awakening, family members' escapades, derisive living truth, eccentricity and idioms trigger smiles, thrills, and bittersweet tears. Atrocities make just a waning setting in this sweeping, witty, and passionate novel knocking the socks off, unless readers wear pantyhose.

KOSHER HOOKS and MEIN KRAMPF continue the hero’s story. As a gentleman, S.I. Fishgal made his books independent. His soul bares itself (souls have no sex) and spills the gall in the potent, rich, vivid, teasing and fascinating novels.

   KOSHER HOOKS continues the hero's story.
   1946-53, the XX century's "Middle Ages". AmeriKKKans arraign the kosher people as the USSR's moles. SSoviets not only mirror that, but might ship all Jews to the starving, icy Siberian mini Zion named the Jewish Autonomous Region. Kiev's life teaches Roma, 13, that kissing rumps is better than tasting their fruits. The police summon his dad, jail the brass and friends. Some commit suicide. The boy is ripe for his personal show-trial too. In that bedlam, girls pour their hearts to him. Yet, he plans to swim to Turkey. 
    S.I. Fishgal's PIDDLER ON THE HOOF shows the hero's childhood.

   MEIN KRAMPF describes the hero's fiery,forbidden love with a Russian coach, 22. Ukraine, 1952, ages ago, yet true. The girls still carry the heavy cross of the sexual innocence. A Russian girl, 22, rowing medalist and coach, falls in fiery, forbidden love with a cocky, witty boy, 14, listed as a Jew.Yet, he is above all that and plans to swim to Turkey if SSoviets try to ship the Jews to the starving, icy Siberian mini Zion named the Jewish Autonomous Region. The bedlam of arraigning the alleged Jewish moles of AmeriKKKans mirroring that in their country too crafts just a fading set in this intriguing, truthful book.

   S.I. Fishga wanted to title MEIN KAMPF (My Struggle), but someone did that before. For ignoramuses in German, not you surely, krampf means cramp. His PIDDLER ON THE HOOF and KOSHER HOOKS show the boy's earlier years.

As a gentleman, Fishgal made his books independent, with the horse sense, crisp and funny language, topsy-turvy idioms and plays of words.