Books
by Christabel Bielenberg
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The Past is Myself |
In 1934 Christabel Burton married Peter Bielenberg, a young Hamburg lawyer and in doing so became a German citizen. This is her account of her life in Nazi Germany before and during the war and of the attempts of her husband and his friends to organise opposition to the regime, culminating in the tragedy of the failed July 1944 plot. There's humour as well as horror in this extraordinary tale.
(Wendy Swann - bwl 5 October 2000) |
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The Road Ahead |
The sequel to The Past is Myself begins where the previous volume ends. The war in Europe is over and the author and her German husband and their children emerge from hiding in the Black Forest. What next? Germany is shattered and England drab. They opt for farming in Ireland and buy a broken down farm in the Wicklow Mountains. In a much lighter vein than the previous volume, with many mishaps and much laughter.
(Wendy Swann - bwl 5 October 2000) |
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