Peeling the Onion
(author)
£10.99
Edition:Paperback978009950759805/06/2008
Category: Biography, Letters & Diaries
Tag: Germany
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SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more
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