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WE GERMANS - ALEXANDER STARRITT TASCHENBUCH

An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the eastern front' Antony Beevor
'Starritt's daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories  to seek answers from the past
and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own' New York Times When a young
British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war
the question is initially met with irritation and silence  But after the old man's death  a
long letter to his grandson is found among his things  That letter is this book  In it  he
relates the experiences of an unlikely few days on the Eastern Front - at a moment when he
knows not only that Germany is going to lose the war  but that it deserves to  He writes about
his everyday experience amid horror  confusion and great bravery  and he asks himself what
responsibility he bears for the circumstances he found himself in  As he tries to find an
answer he can live with  we hear from his grandson what kind of man he became in the seventy
years after the war  We Germans is a fundamentally human novel that grapples with the most
profound of questions about guilt  shame and responsibility - questions that remain as live
today as they have always been 

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