Nothing For Tears (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 50 years)

by Lali Horstmann (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $13.81

  Lali and her husband Freddy Horstmann, a retired diplomat, were living at the end of the war on their small estate east of Berlin. This book tells the story of the last months of the war under the demoralised Nazis and the first months of peace under Russian occupation. Regarded with suspicion by the Nazis and then overrun by the Russians, the Horstmann's cultivated life collapsed. In the Spring of 1946 the secret police arrested Freddy, and Lali only learnt of his eventual death in a concentration camp two and a half years later. Quietly and simply told, based on diaries and notes she made at the time, it is an eloquent and heartbreaking story.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $4.64

  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, with a few treasured tapestries and other possessions, into the agent's little house in the park. It was to this small house that the Russian Secret Police came one spring night in1946 and took Freddy away with them into the dark. It was two and a half years later that Lali learned, almost by chance, that Freddy had died of starvation in a Russian concentration camp only a few miles from their home. Lali Horstmann's account of the last months of the war under the desperate and demoralised Nazis and the terrifying arrival of the Russians is both eloquent and heartbreaking.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $12.19

  The true story of one family's struggle in the chaos of Germany's defeat in 1945

  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 in1946 and took Freddy away with them into the dark. Two and a half years later Lali learned, almost by chance, that Freddy had died of starvation in a Russian concentration camp only a few miles from their home.

  Lali Horstmann's account of the last months of the war under the desperate and demoralised Nazis, and the terrifying arrival of the Russians, is both eloquent and heartbreaking.