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A devastating novel of World War II and the final months of a war that forever darkened the souls of the civilians who lived through it - from the award-winning author of To Die in Spring.

A devastating novel of World War II and the final months of a war that forever darkened the souls of the civilians who lived through it - from the award-winning author of To Die in Spring.

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A child at war: at the beginning of 1945, twelve-year-old Luisa Norff and her mother and older sister had to flee to the country from bombarded Kiel. The estate of her brother-in-law Vinzent, an SS officer, becomes an unexpected space of freedom: no more lessons, and as Allied bombers fly east and more and more refugees arrive, the dazed wander through the woods trying to understand life away from the fires. Why does the sight of young Walter ...

Walter Urban and Friedrich ‘Fiete’ Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War’s worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to ‘volunteer’ for the Waffen-SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, ...

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[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Günter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque, it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership.' GuardianWalter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, ...