Love Among the Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945

Author:	Smith, Harry Leslie
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9781785780004
Publisher:	Icon Books
Language:	English
Page Count:	271
Publication Date:	1/1/2015
Size:	8.00" l x 5.50" w x 1.00"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Personal Memoirs

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith – the now 92-year-old activist and 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 the grinding poverty of his Yorkshire youth, Harry unexpectedly finds a reason to stay: a young German woman by the name of Friede.

As their love develops, they must face both German suspicion and British disapproval of relations with 'the enemy'.
Harry's ardent, straight-from-the-heart memoir brings to life a city reduced to rubble, populated with refugees, black marketeers, corrupt businessmen and cynical soldiers.

Love Among Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg is a unique snapshot of a terrible period in Europe's history, and a passionate love letter to a city, to a woman, and to life itself.