In my grandfather's shadow : a story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence
Findlay, Angela2023
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Total copies: 2
In 1987, Angela Findlay walked into a prison and instantly but inexplicably felt at home. For years she had wrestled with a sense of 'badness' within her. But working with prisoners was just the beginning of her search for answers that took her to Nazi Germany and the life of her dead grandfather, who, it emerged, was a decorated general on the Eastern front. In a rare confluence of memoir, psychology and historical detective story, this is Findlay's account of her unflinching quest for the truth about her German family, one that breaks through the silence surrounding many of the Second World War's perpetrators.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2023.
Collation:
384 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780552177726 (pbk)
Dewey class:
943.086 FIN943.086
LC class:
DD256.5
Language:
English
Subject:
Findlay, Angela -- FamilyPsychic trauma -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryCollective memory -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryNazis -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryGenerals -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe, EasternHistoryHistoryGermanyMemoirsEuropean historySecond World WarMilitary history: post-WW2 conflictsGermany -- History -- 1933-1945Germany -- History -- 1945-Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century
BRN:
602025