What's Everyone Reading?
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Sci fi Victoriana revisited. Highly creative and on the Gothic side. I believe both its literature and art forms were inspired by Jules Verne and HG Wells.
Aha! I had not made the connection between steam power and the title of the genre - now I know!
Famous Last Words - Fond Farewells - Deathbed Diatribes ... by Ray Robinson
I wish I could read.
I've just finished reading this:
Hanns Alexander was a handsome young German Jew who, along with his mother, father, older sisters and beloved twin brother Paul, fled his native Germany to Britain in 1936 to escape the Nazis. At the outbreak of war, Hanns and Paul voluntarily joined the British Army.
Rudolf Höss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.
This is the true story of how, just after the war ended, Hanns Alexander was a lead investigator in the British team which hunted down and captured the Kommandant of Auschwitz.
Hanns passed away in 2006. The book's author, Thomas Harding, is Hanns' great-nephew.
Hanns Alexander (left) and a bloodied Rudolf Höss after his capture by the British in 1946
Hanns Alexander was a handsome young German Jew who, along with his mother, father, older sisters and beloved twin brother Paul, fled his native Germany to Britain in 1936 to escape the Nazis. At the outbreak of war, Hanns and Paul voluntarily joined the British Army.
Rudolf Höss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.
This is the true story of how, just after the war ended, Hanns Alexander was a lead investigator in the British team which hunted down and captured the Kommandant of Auschwitz.
Hanns passed away in 2006. The book's author, Thomas Harding, is Hanns' great-nephew.
Hanns Alexander (left) and a bloodied Rudolf Höss after his capture by the British in 1946
