Set in 1943, and first published in German in 1968, this is the story of a young boy torn between loyalties for his father, a police officer, and his friend Max Ludwig Nansen, an Expressionist painter whose works his father must destroy.
The German Lesson
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Translated from the German, this is a substantial book on the man who led Europe out of the Napoleonic chaos; the father of realpolitik, according to Kissinger.
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
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The fascinating story of a language known as 'Rotwelsch', associated with vagabonds - linked to Yiddish and Romani - that the author learned from his father and uncle. His grandfather, a Naz... read more
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Marvellously researched account of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first (and short-lived) democracy.
November 1918: The German Revolution
Hardback £20.00