The remarkable story of the author’s Jewish grandmother, whose bestselling Viennese cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938 and republished for decades under a false Aryan name. Her book is carefully researched and has an extraordinary range – from Shanghai in the 1930s to Dachau, Vienna to Lake Windermere, the Kindertransport, the US intelligences services, publishing protocols under the Nuremberg laws, emigration and the creation of new lives in new worlds. Outstanding.
Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook
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Edition:Hardback978152941630512/05/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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