Hitler

Katherine Koch’s novel, “The Sower of Black Field,” the Catholic Media Association’s 2025 first place winner for Catholic novel, presents a semi-fictionalized account of that day, and of Father Koch and his parishioners’ harrowing experiences under Nazi rule.

The book’s narratives of the people and events of Germany and Austria in the period leading up to and during World War II are well-written, even gripping at times.