Alone In Berlin
Author: Fallada, Hans
ISBN: 9780141189383
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2010
Pages: 608
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'A truly great book ... an utterly gripping thriller' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways- the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks ...
ISBN: 9780141189383
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2010
Pages: 608
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'A truly great book ... an utterly gripping thriller' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways- the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks ...
