Author: PAUL BRISCOE, MICHAEL MCMAHON
Title: My friend the enemy. An English boy in Nazi Germany
Description: 2007. Pp: 212. On a visit to Germany in 1934, Nora Briscoe became captivated by Nationalocialism, so much so that two years later she entrusted her six-year-old sonaul to a German foster family. When war was declared in September 1939, Paulas left stranded in an alien country, while his mother became a Nazi spyperating out of the British Ministry of Supply. In this compelling andeeply moving memoir of war and childhood, Paul Briscoe recalls his harrowingxperiences in Nazi Germany, including a raid on a synagogue with his fellowembers of the Hitler Youth, and becoming a poster boy for National Socialismn one of the Party's propaganda films. On his return to England in 1945 -eaving behind the German family he had grown to love - he was confrontedith a mother he did not recognise in a country whose language he could noonger speak. And he learned that his mother had been imprisoned for treasonfter an intricate M15 sting. Foster Fatherland brings vividly to life thisxtraordinary story, conveying the pain and confusion of the son but also thembition, delusion and eventual bitter disappointment of the mother, drawing. ISBN: 9781845132316. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781845132316
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Title: My friend the enemy. An English boy in Nazi Germany
Description: 2007. Pp: 212. On a visit to Germany in 1934, Nora Briscoe became captivated by Nationalocialism, so much so that two years later she entrusted her six-year-old sonaul to a German foster family. When war was declared in September 1939, Paulas left stranded in an alien country, while his mother became a Nazi spyperating out of the British Ministry of Supply. In this compelling andeeply moving memoir of war and childhood, Paul Briscoe recalls his harrowingxperiences in Nazi Germany, including a raid on a synagogue with his fellowembers of the Hitler Youth, and becoming a poster boy for National Socialismn one of the Party's propaganda films. On his return to England in 1945 -eaving behind the German family he had grown to love - he was confrontedith a mother he did not recognise in a country whose language he could noonger speak. And he learned that his mother had been imprisoned for treasonfter an intricate M15 sting. Foster Fatherland brings vividly to life thisxtraordinary story, conveying the pain and confusion of the son but also thembition, delusion and eventual bitter disappointment of the mother, drawing. ISBN: 9781845132316. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781845132316
Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 701198
- Book number: 701198
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