This is the Sunday Times bestseller. It is shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. "A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history". (John Le Carre). Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the...

Po skončení 2. světové války byl ustanoven britský První tým pro vyšetřování válečných zločinů, jehož úkolem bylo vystopovat a dopadnout pachatele zvěrstev z řad význačných nacistů. Nadporučík a později kapitán Hanns Alexander, pocházející z úspěšné rodiny německých Židů, která ve 30. letech minulého století musela před nacisty uprchnout z Berlína do Londýna (Hanns Alexander byl bratrem babičky Thomase Hardinga, autora této knihy), se stal jedním z hlavních britských vyšetřovatelů, zatímco Rudolf Höss, bývalý německý rolník a...

In July 2012 Thomas Harding's 14-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. 'Kadian Journal' is a diary that Thomas started in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Revealing the story of Germany through the inhabitants of one small wooden building: a nobleman farmer, a Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, a widow and her children, a Stasi informant, this book moves from the late nineteenth century to the present day, from the devastation of two world wars to the dividing and reuniting of a nation.

A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup. On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door. Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the...