Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg : a Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945
Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg : a Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945 By Smith, Harry Leslie
2015 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 178578000X | EPUB | 1 MB
2015 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 178578000X | EPUB | 1 MB
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. It’s 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.