Books: BIOGRAPHY.Byline: Michael Wood Michael Wood refers to:
On Hitler's Mountain: My Nazi Childhood by Irmgard Hunt (Atlantic Books, pounds 15.99). THE author grew up in the shadow of Hitler's Bavarian retreat at Berchtesgaden. Her parents were among the millions who had voted Hitler into power in the 30s and at the age of three she was photographed sitting on Hitler's knee. Later, she learned how to salute and greet people with a "Heil Hitler". From her early years, she recalls family Christmases, summer walks and picnics in the mountains, but when she was five, war broke out, bringing death, shortages and disillusionment Disillusionment Adams, Nick loses innocence through WWI experience. [Am. Lit.: “The Killers”] Angry Young Men disillusioned postwar writers of Britain, such as Osborne and Amis. [Br. Lit. . Her father died while fighting in France. She also came close to inadvertently betraying her "unpatriotic" maternal grandfather to a teacher who turned out to be a Nazi informer Informer Battus revealed theft by Mercury; turned to touchstone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 47] Cenci, Count Francesco old libertine ravishes his daughter Beatrice. [Br. Lit. . This is a highly personalised, honest and revealing account of the war through the eyes of a young child - an eye-opener for anyone who ever wondered how a nation could have been taken in by such a vile regime.**** |
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