INGE'S WAR - SVENJA O'DONNELL

Discover a mesmerizing story about uncovering family history from World War II. Svenja O'Donnell, Inge's granddaughter, reaches the painful truth after 60 years, hidden for years. It is a moving saga of German identity and war trauma that forever changed the fate of the family.

• Engrossing saga about World War II
• Deep reckoning with the meaning of German identity
• Moving story about war trauma
• Reconstruction of Inge's life from Nazi Germany to the difficult post-war years
• Discovering secrets hidden for over six decades
• Extraordinary story about a woman caught up in the course of history

Growing up in Paris, Svenja O'Donnell knew little about her mother's family history. She was only told that her great-grandparents, grandmother and mother fled their hometown of Königsberg (then Knigsberg, now Kaliningrad) at the end of World War II, never to return. Everything changed when O'Donnell, while visiting Kaliningrad, called her grandmother, who suddenly burst into tears in an unusual way. - I have a lot to tell you - Inge finally confessed.

Award-winning journalist Svenja O'Donnell vividly and movingly reconstructs Inge's life story, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the difficult years after the war, from the love for a man who was sent to the Eastern Front right after she became pregnant with him, to the dramatic escape with a small child and the rest of the family as the Red Army approached. Ultimately, O'Donnell discovers the brutal truth about what separated Inge from the man she loved above all else: a terrible secret hidden by her for over six decades.

"Inge's War" is not only an engrossing saga about World War II, but also a kind of deep reckoning with the meaning of German identity and war trauma. Following in her grandmother's footsteps, O'Donnell describes the story of an extraordinary woman caught up in the course of history. Bravely facing her family's legacy, she also gives the reader a wonderful chance to discover a secret that has been shrouded in a veil of silence and shame for too long. An extraordinary saga David Grann, author of New York Times bestsellers. Edition: Pages: 334, Format: 176x113 mm Year: Year of publication: 2021, cover: paperback Publisher: Świat Książki Number of pages: 334 Cover: paperback Format: 176x113 mm.