Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Shortlisted for the Prix Femina 2022
Shortlisted for the Prix M-cis 2022
''An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the Eastern Front'' Antony Beevor
''Starritt''s daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories, to seek answers from the past, and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own'' New York Times
When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is initially met with irritation and silence. But after the old man''s death, a long letter to his grandson is found among his things.
That letter is this book. In it, he relates the experiences of an unlikely few days on the Eastern Front - at a moment when he knows not only that Germany is going to lose the war, but that it deserves to. He writes about his everyday experience amid horror, confusion and great bravery, and he
