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Starred Review on October 11, 2013 | Fiction
If ever there was an apt title! The German city of Hamburg lies in ruins in 1946 in the aftermath of a bombing firestorm wrought three years earlier by the RAF. Col. Lewis Morgan, with the British occupying force in postwar Germany, is in charge of reconstruction of the city and the de-Nazification program. He has been billeted in a luxurious villa on the Elbe. His wife, Rachel, is shocked when she arrives from England with their teenage son,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More