A Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary

by Hans Fallada

Book Overview

"I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses." Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of "inward emigration". Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free from the nightmare of the Nazi years. He records his thoughts about spying and denunciation, about the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745669883
• ISBN13: 9780745669885
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"