You know the dreadful conclusion from the beginning. Only 6 when her father was executed for his part in the 20 July Hitler assassination plot, this is Bruhns' painful, deeply moving account of his life and death. Her journalistic style, so full of often unanswered questions, might seem detached. It has the opposite effect, drawing us into the lives of a provincial German family and thereby revealing more about this turbulent period than many conventional histories.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 46 June 2008 ) |
