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The End And The Beginning: A Novel
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A Stunning Tour De Force Of A Novel Based On The True Story Of A FourteenYearOld BoyS Harrowing Experience Fleeing A Hitler Youth Camp With His Best Friend In The Last Days Of The Second World WarPerfect For Readers Of All The Light We Cannot See And The German Girl.At The Start Of The War, EightYearOld Max Bernot Lives With His Sister And Parents In Lauterbach, Saarland, A Narrow Strip Of Territory Between The French And German Defence Lines. His German Father, Anton, And His French Mother, Marguerite, Do Their Best To Shield Max And His Sister, Anna, From Nazi Violence, But In Late 1944, Their Beloved Godfather Is Executed In Their Garden By The Ss, And Max, Now Thirteen, Is Conscripted In The Volkssturm. Less Than A Month Later, Max Flees A Hitler Youth Camp In Bavaria With His Best Friend, Hans. His Mission: To Return Home And Tell His Mother The Truth About His GodfatherS Murder As He Escapes, He Sends Postcards To His Family That Trace His Fraught Journey Across A Country In Its Death Throes.Unbeknownst To Max, His Mother Is Trapped In The German Interior, Coerced Into Working For A Fanatical Nazi Officer. Desperate To Escape And Reunite Her Family, Marguerite Must First Protect Anna From The Sinister Attentions Of Their Captor, Who Could Hold Information On MaxS Whereabouts Even As Allied Planes Circle Closer.Deftly Interweaving The Wartime Stories Of Max And Marguerite, The End And The Beginning Maps The Loss Of Innocence Of A Generation Of Children Raised In The Shadow Of The Reich And Follows The Fate Of One Family, Neither Wholly French Nor Entirely German, Who Find Themselves On The Wrong Side Whichever Way They Turn.
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