Nothing For Tears
$42.22
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2004
Summary
Towards the end of the Second World War, Lali Horstmann and her husband Freddy, a retired diplomat and art collector, were living at Kerzendorf, an elegant eighteenth-century house with a small park, avenues, statues and a garden, fifteen miles east of Berlin. The house was destroyed one night by allied bombers and the Horstmanns moved into the agent’s little house in the park. It was to this small house that the Russian Secret Police came one spring night in 1946 and took Freddy away with th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842127384 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1842127381 |
| Author: | Lali Horstmann |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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Outstanding * The Times *The most interesting personal document which has come out of Germany since the war * Time and Tide *
About The Author
Lali Horstmann
Lali Horstmann came from a distinguished German banking family, the von Schwabachs. Her husband Freddy Horstmann was a diplomat and art collector, the only son of the owner of a Frankfurt newspaper, the General Anzeiger. Freddy Horstmann resigned from the Diplomatic Service when Hitler came to power. Lali Horstmann left Berlin in 1949, and lived mostly in London and New York. She died in 1954.
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