Tag: Second World War
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The Gustav Sonata, by Rose Tremain
Hardback, Chatto and Windus, £16.99, out now Gustav lives with his widowed mother in Switzerland, just after the Second World War. A young boy, he is raised by his mother to value Switzerland’s neutrality, and told to master his own emotions. Gustav forms an intense friendship with a new arrival at his school, a Jewish…
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East West Street – On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, by Philippe Sands
Hardback, Orion Books, £20, out now International human rights barrister Philippe Sands opens his remarkable new book with a quote from Nicolas Abraham: “What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others”. Sands tries to fill some of these gaps in the stories of both his family…
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A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt, edited by Simon Garfield
Hardback £20, Canongate, out now “There is so much in this world to make me happy. Small things such as cats, a good meal, one’s garden, trees in spring and autumn, clouds, colours, fabrics, clothes, companionship, books and music and films, a drink in the friendly atmosphere of an English pub, a ride in a…