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In My Grandfather’s Shadow is an unflinching, thought-provoking fusion of memoir and history, and an exploration of the hidden scars left across generations by the conflict and horrors of the Second World War.
In a quest to discover the truth about her German grandfather, first a proud Wehrmacht General serving on the Eastern front, then a broken POW on trial for Nazi war crimes, Angela Findlay travels across Europe and Russia to uncover the untold story of millions of Germans long buried not only in guilt and shame but also trauma.
Carefully breaking the silence surrounding so many of World War Two’s perpetrators, she challenges widespread binary narratives and offers a way forward that allows the intergenerational wounds to heal and us all to grasp the urgent lessons of the darkest episode in modern history.
Brave, profoundly insightful and moving, In My Grandfather’s Shadow is a courageous look at a taboo subject and raises important questions about how and why we should remember the past.
“This is a moving and powerful memoir that illuminates the extraordinary power of unprocessed trauma as it passes through generations, and how when it is faced it can be healed.”
JULIA SAMUEL, author of Every Family Has a Story, Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass
“A page turner of the highest calibre! Meticulously researched, searingly honest and beautifully written.” MARINA CANTACUZINO, Author and founder of The Forgiveness Project
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