Written by a young Englishwoman in Bavaria in 1935 and published in 1936, this novel is about the effect of Hitler’s rise on an ordinary family. Each is affected: one goes to the dark side, another is broken, a friend is destroyed, but the current sweeps them all along. As for the effect on the girl of the family, you must read the brilliant previous volume, Crooked Cross, also set in 1933.
There is nothing like this in modern historical fiction; the sheer conviction of a writer who was there, witnessing these things, is unmistakable. It was a warning for…
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