On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Elya Mendel, and becomes obsessed with what they reveal and finding the brutal film. Award-winning writer Justin Cartwright has conjured a masterwork that addresses the nature of friendship and what it means to be human, and it is a remarkable tapestry of passion, ideas, frailty and courage.
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- ISBN
9780747585947
- Published
- February 4th 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Category
- Modern Fiction
- Number of pages
- 288
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129
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