The House by the Lake
One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History
Thomas Harding
This book follows the journey of a grandson and his grandmother as they visit a small wooden house by a lake in Germany, which had been her childhood sanctuary until the Nazis' rise to power forced them to leave. When the grandson returned almost twenty years later, the house was about to be demolished, and he began to uncover secrets of the five families who had lived there, each with their own stories of storms, fires, violence, betrayals, and more. It's a breathtaking and intimate account of Germany's tumultuous history told through the eyes of a small house.
Publish Date
2015-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
2015-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.13
ISBN
9781536212747
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2021-02-20T09:21:46.000Z
@PaulWat5 @SwailesRuth @cguillain @f33lthesun @sam_creighton @Misterbodd @LTeacher123 @one_to_read @richreadalot @rcharlesworth Love that book. The narrative flow is great. I like that it adds a human story to the period. – source