Love Among the Ruins
At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith — author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand — but the battle for love and hope rages on.
Stationed in occupied Hamburg, a city physically and emotionally ripped apart by Allied bombing, and determined to escape grinding poverty of his Yorkshire youth, Harry unexpectedly finds a reason to stay: a young German woman by the name of Friede.
Their love develops uneasily, but gradually they win each other’s trust, Harry taking on the responsibility of finding food for Friede’s near-destitute family. But they must face both German suspicion and British disapproval of relations with ‘the enemy’.
Presenting a street-level view of a city reduced to rubble, populated with refugees, black marketeers, corrupt businessmen and cynical soldiers, Love Among the Ruins is a unique snapshot of a terrible period in Europe’s history, a passionate love letter to a city, to a woman, and to life itself.
- Author
- Harry Leslie Smith
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781785780004
- Genres
- memoir, history, germany, war, biography, politics, autobiography
- Release date
- 2015
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