My Father's Country
Story Of A German Family
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ISBN
9780307262813
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Taal
Engels
Auteur
Uitgeverij
Random House Inc
Jaar van uitgifte
2008
Aantal pagina's
361
Waar gaat het over?
On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in the July plot against Hitler. Eleven days later, he was executed.
Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of July 20, she saw images of her father in court suddenly appeared on-screen. I stare at this man with the empty face. I dont know him. But I can see myself in himhis eyes are my eyes; I know I resemble him. I know I wouldnt be here without him. And what do I know about him? Nothing at all.
How could her patriotic family succumb to Nazi sympathies? And what made her father finally renounce Hitler? With a wealth of letters and diaries documenting the story of her family, from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm to the end of the Second World War, and with her own coruscating intelligence, she unravels her family's unique and unforgettable history.
My Fathers Country tells an astounding storygripping, startlingly intimate, emotionally rivetingof three generations. A huge best seller in the authors native country, it offers unparalleled insight into the experience of being German in the last century. A real-life Buddenbrooks.
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