Clare Mulley

The house that Alfred built

Thomas Harding’s A House by the Lake chronicles the rise of Nazism through the story of one small summer retreat on the outskirts of Berlin

issue 19 September 2015

  • The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany

    Thomas Harding

    Heinemann, pp. 482

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