A Twentieth Century Family at Home and Abroad

Margaret Gordon

2025 | 364pp colour hb | ISBN: 978-1-914002-61-8

Two young people and their adventures through turbulent times. Childhood and youth in Nazi Germany, escape to a new life in Britain, wartime experiences in the army or internment, emergence to the comparative calm of post-war Britain. Family separation, loss, global dispersion, reunion, rebuilding after tremendous upheaval. Personal memoirs illustrated by short biographies of friends and relations, contemporary letters, later reminiscences by others, and thoughts of the next generation. An ordinary couple in extraordinary times.

Interested in Autobiography, Germany in the Thirties, the Second World War or Social History of the Twentieth Century? Then this is the book for you.