Almost a Childhood
Behr, Hans-Georg / Bell, Anthea
Hans Georg-Behr's remarkable account of a childhood spent in Nazi Austria is a powerful indictment of the toll that war takes on children, whichever side they find themselves on. To a five-year-old boy, having a high ranking Nazi for a father means trying to come to terms with a bizarre family - his kindly, liberal grandparents whose estate provides wartime refuge for all manner of unlikely visitors, his cold-hearted mother, once a famous oper...