My Father's Country
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<b>The story of a German family from the late nineteenth century through WWI to WWII and after. A huge bestseller in Germany, it offers extraordinarily moving and riveting insight into the experience of being German in the last century.</b>
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Zusatztext
<p>In August 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his part in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of 20 July, images of her father in the Third Reich People's Court appeared on the screen - and she realises she never knew him.</p><p><i>In My Father's Country</i>, Bruhns tells of her search for her father. Returning to her ancestral home in Halberstadt, Northern Germany, she retraces her family's story from Kaiser Wilhelm to the end of World War Two, discovering old photographs, letters and diaries, which she uses to piece together a unique and unforgettable family epic.</p>
Autorenportrait
Wibke Bruhns was born in 1938 in Halberstadt. She has worked as a journalist in both TV and print and as a TV presenter and news reader. She has worked as a correspondent for<i>Stern</i>magazine in the US and Israel. She has two grown-up daughters and now lives and works as a freelance writer in Berlin.
Weitere Details
Erschienen: 10.11.2009
Umfang: 352 S., 1.80 MB
Sprache: ENG
ISBN/EAN: 9781409069294
Umbreit-Nr.: 6451933
