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The Kaiser’s Last Kiss

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Description for The Kaiser’s Last Kiss Paperback. A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm's last years in Nazi-occupied Holland. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.

A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm’s last years in Nazi-occupied Holland.

It is 1940 and the exiled Kaiser is living in Holland, at his palace Huis Doorn.The old German king spends his days chopping logs and musing on what might have been.

When the Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser’s Dutch staff are replaced by SS guards, led by young, eager Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and an unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper. While they agree on the rightfulness ... Read more

This subtle, tender novel borrows heavily from real history and events, but remains a work of superlative, literary fiction.Through Judd’s depiction of the Lear-like Kaiser and the softening of brutal Krebbs, the novel draws unique parallels between Germany at the turn of the 20th century and Hitler’s Germany.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007124473
SKU
V9780007124473
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99-99

About Alan Judd
Alan Judd began writing while in the Foreign Office. His novel, The Devil’s Own Work, won the Guardian fiction prize and his biography of Ford Madox Ford the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann award. He has also published a biography of Mansfield Cumming, founder of the modern Secret Service, using Cumming’s previously unknown diaries. His last novel was Legacy, a ... Read more

Reviews for The Kaiser’s Last Kiss
‘This is a story that shows us how the nastiest regimes are composed of real people. Judd has taken some unlikely ingredients – a bitter, senile old git, a brash young SS officer and Heinrich Himmler -and, briliantly, fashioned them into a touching, poignant story.’ Daily Telegraph ‘A ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Kaiser’s Last Kiss


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