A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis by Catherine Bailey

A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis

Catherine Bailey

461 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional medium-paced

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As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with ...

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