Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeShortlisted for the Prix Femina 2022Shortlisted for the Prix Mdicis 2022An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the Eastern Front Antony BeevorStarritts daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories, to seek answers from the past, and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own New York TimesWhen a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is initially met with irritation and silence. But after the old mans death, a long letter to his grandson is found among his things. That letter is this book. In it, he relates the experiences of an unlikely few days on the Eastern Front at a moment when he knows not only that Germany is going to lose the war, but that it deserves to. He writes about his everyday experience amid horror, confusion and great bravery, and he asks himself what responsibility he bears for the circumstances he found himself in. As he tries to find an answer he can live with, we hear from his grandson what kind of man he became in the seventy years after the war.We Germans is a fundamentally human novel that grapples with the most profound of questions about guilt, shame and responsibility questions that remain as live today as they have always been.

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 272 g; Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 16

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