- Fiction, Literature, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei, World War, 1939-1945
"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France.
FictionLiteratureNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der SicherheitspolizeiWorld War, 1939-1945Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-ParteiBisexual menHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. SchutzstaffelAtrocitiesNazisFiction, historical, generalNazis, fiction
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- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Jonathan Littell
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 983
- Publisher
- Harper, HarperCollins, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061353451
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- Fiction
- Literature
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei
- World War, 1939-1945
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
- Bisexual men
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Atrocities
- Nazis
- Fiction, historical, general
- Nazis, fiction
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