Love Among the Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945
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At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry’s Last Stand but the battle for love and hope rages on.
Stationed in occupied Hamburg, a city physically and emotionally ripped apart by Allied bombing, and determined to escape the grinding poverty of his Yorkshire youth, Harry unexpectedly finds a reason to stay: a young German woman by the name of Friede. As their love develops, they must face both German suspicion and British disapproval of relations with the enemy’.
Harry’s ardent, straight-from-the-heart memoir brings to life a city re
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Manufacturer: Icon Books
Release date: 12 April 2016
ISBN-10 : 178578000X | ISBN-13: 9781785780004
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Release date: 12 April 2016
ISBN-10 : 178578000X | ISBN-13: 9781785780004
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