The Tragedy of Lidice
Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.
Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.
The article that follows comes from True to Both My Selves, Katrin Fitzherbert's prize-winning history of her Anglo-German family. Spanning a century and two world wars, the book centres on three generations of women who each lived part of their lives as Germans and part as Britons, depending on the state of politics between the two countries.
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