Diary of a dead man on leave : a novel
Downing, David
Diary of a dead man on leave : a novel / David Downing - New York : Soho Press, Inc. , 2019 - 252 p. ; 19 cm
In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widows son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission. Josef Hofmann was not the returned Argentinian immigrant hed said he washe was a communist spy under Moscows command to try to reconnect with any remnants of Germanys suppressed communist party.
English
9781641291293
Spy stories
Communists----Fiction
Diaries----Fiction
World War---Germany---1939-1945----Fiction
FIC DOW
Diary of a dead man on leave : a novel / David Downing - New York : Soho Press, Inc. , 2019 - 252 p. ; 19 cm
In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widows son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission. Josef Hofmann was not the returned Argentinian immigrant hed said he washe was a communist spy under Moscows command to try to reconnect with any remnants of Germanys suppressed communist party.
English
9781641291293
Spy stories
Communists----Fiction
Diaries----Fiction
World War---Germany---1939-1945----Fiction
FIC DOW
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