Why read Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad?

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER 'An unforgettable epic of a book'DAILY MAIL

From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father's devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second…

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Spencer Leigh

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I have often heard Daniel Finkelstein on the BBC talking wisely and wittily about current political events.

I knew a little of his Jewish background, but I had never expected such a harrowing and remarkable story of wartime persecution. Long before his parents met, his relatives moved around Europe, picking crops in Russia or anticipating the worst on the way to concentration camps.

It is unbelievable to think that other human beings could be so inhuman. Could it happen again? “It isn’t about to happen to my children,” writes Finkelstein, “But could it? It could. Absolutely, it could.”

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