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The German Officer's Boy
Harlan Greene
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Description for The German Officer's Boy
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when a young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out? The immediate consequence was concrete: Nazis retaliated with Kristallnacht - 'Night of Broken Glass' - the beginning of the Holocaust. Lost in the aftermath is the story of Herschel Grynszpan, the confused teenager whose murder of Ernst vom Rath was used to justify Kristallnacht.
In this historical novel, award-winning writer Harlan Greene takes Grynszpan at his word. Historians have tried to explain away the claim that he was involved in a love affair with vom Rath; ... Read more
What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when a young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out? The immediate consequence was concrete: Nazis retaliated with Kristallnacht - 'Night of Broken Glass' - the beginning of the Holocaust. Lost in the aftermath is the story of Herschel Grynszpan, the confused teenager whose murder of Ernst vom Rath was used to justify Kristallnacht.
In this historical novel, award-winning writer Harlan Greene takes Grynszpan at his word. Historians have tried to explain away the claim that he was involved in a love affair with vom Rath; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299208141
SKU
V9780299208141
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Ref
99-1
About Harlan Greene
Harlan Greene, the son of Holocaust survivors, is author of Why We Never Danced the Charleston and the Lambda Literary Award-winner What the Dead Remember. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
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