An exceptional memoir of growing up in northern Germany in the 1930s and of the slide into war. The historian and novelist is warm and humorous as well as observant and meticulous. An unnerving exploration of the insidious creep of complicity.
An Ordinary Youth
£18.99
Edition:Hardback978178378884202/11/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
Caste
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Focuses on the lives of six individuals and their families who were among the 20 million Germans who never voted for the Nazis. This is an important new assessment of those who had to manage... read more
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
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Long anticipated voyage through the overlapping currents of nature, life and art. PH won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Leviathan, or The Whale; here he attempts to answer why Durer's art endu... read more
Albert and the Whale
Hardback £16.99