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Defying Hitler: The Story of a German, 1914-1933 by Sebastian Haffner |
This extraordinary 'small political biography' was found in a hidden drawer, translated and published by his son Oliver Pretzel, after the death of the author and is now perhaps even more fascinating to the reader, almost ninety years later, by his clear, keen and poignant observations of Nazi Germany. It is as though a traveller had arrived in England and had described the insidiousness and total viciousness of what was happening to him and to so many others. A shattering read.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 102 Autumn 2021 ) |
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