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When hitler came to power in 1933, a tight group of friends and lovers chased outlawed for the nightunited in their resistance to the madness and. About this title may belong to another edition of this title. There, they continued the dangerous and illegal work of smuggling documents out of goerings office, and giving them to winston churchill a backbencher at the time to try to alert the world to hitlers plans for war. Anna funder s international bestseller, stasiland, won the samuel johnson prize for nonfiction. Anna funder s exquisitely written novel, all that i am, about german jewish refugees trying to raise the alarm about hitler to a maddeningly unreceptive britain in the early 30s, resonates with particular intensity during the current coronavirus scare, which is all the more frightening for there being no safe harbor from the virus reach. It won the miles franklin prize, spent over one and a half years on the bestseller list, and is being made into a feature film.
All that i am isbn 9780857962775 pdf epub anna funder. All that i am is a fictionalisation of the lives of ruth wesemann and ernst toller, dissident germans who fled soon after the nazis came to power. Funder s 2012 novel all that i am tells the previously untold story of four germanjewish antihitler activists forced to flee to london. It is the authors first novel, but her name had been established by the nonfiction hit stasiland 2003. It was released february 2012 in the usa and italy and other countries around the world to follow. All that i am was published to critical and popular acclaim in the uk where it was both bbc book of the week and book at bedtime and australia where it has spent nine months on the bestseller list, twice at no.