Walter Kempowski: SWANSONG 1945 Z16 [2015] hardback CLASS sultry day when everything falls

sultry day when everything falls apart

With bombs falling all over London

Leviathan Falls (coming 2021)

steeped in atmosphere

Walter Kempowski: SWANSONG 1945 Z16 [2015] hardback CLASS sultry day when everything fallsSwansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30, and finally the German surrender on May 8. Side by side, we encounter vivid, first person accounts of civilians fleeing Berlin, ordinary German