Love Among the Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945

Love Among the Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945

by Smith, Harry Leslie

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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 reduced to rubble, populated with refugees, black marketeers, corrupt businessmen and cynical soldiers. 

Love Among Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg is a unique snapshot of a terrible period in Europe's history, and a passionate love letter to a city, to a woman, and to life itself.


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ISBN: 9781785780004

Published Date: January 1, 2015

Publisher: Icon Books

Language: English

Page Count: 271

Size: 8.00" l x 5.50" w x 1.00" h

Category

Biography and Memoir

Subject

Personal Memoirs