"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Harlan Greene has brought to life "the boy who started World War II" in a headlong narrative both tender and terrifying."-Katherine Govier, author of Creation: A Novel "This is a highly original and compassionate account of how the fires of a forbidden love engulfed Europe. What was the tipping point for the Holocaust? Was one Jew the scapegoat for Kristallnacht, and the burning of the ovens beyond? And was his act of virtue less about Jewish patriotism than sexual revenge? The German Officer’s Boy is an imaginative reopening of a small but pivotal crease in the narrative mystery and history of the Holocaust."-Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible "A quite engaging, provocative, and worthy book. Most historians agree that the 1938 murder of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenaged Jew provided the excuse for Kristallnacht, the upsurge. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving."-Janette Turner Hospital, author of North of Nowhere, South of Loss and Due Preparations for the Plague The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. "Herschel Grynszpan’s life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic.
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