The house by the lake : Berlin, one house, five families, a hundred years of history / Thomas Harding.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Windmill Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxi, 442 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780099592044
- 0099592045
- 943.08 23
- DD901.P8 H37 2016
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Books | Chinhoyi University of Technology Libraries | Chinhoyi University of Technology Libraries | DD 901P8 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.046093 | Available | BK00459432 |
Includes index.
In 2013, Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power. What was once her 'soul place' now stood empty and derelict. A concrete footpath cut through the garden, marking where the Berlin Wall had stood for nearly three decades. In a bid to save the house from demolition, Thomas began to unearth the history of the five families who had lived there- a nobleman farmer, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children and a Stasi informant. Discovering stories of domestic joy and contentment, of terrible grief and tragedy, and of a hatred handed down through the generations, a history of twentieth century Germany and the story of a nation emerged.
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