![]() ![]() He represents the incipient future of Germany and is seeking to destroy the beast of the Nazi past. His face is dirty, his limbs are numb with the cold and he is hungry to the point of collapse. The boy weaves his way with his wild gang of friends, the ferals, through the fractured cityscape. He is dressed in an assortment of clothes pilfered and purloined from both the invading and defeated forces. The novel begins with a German youth wearing a British helmet as he claws his way through the pulverised city heaps. Has he taken on the personal equivalent of 'A Bridge Too Far'? ![]() Morgan's decisions look somewhat naïve but he feels he must set his men a positive example in forging the peace. There is also a retinue of domestic staff somewhat resentfully having to deal with a new English lady directing their activities. The drama is intensified when Colonel Lewis has to requisition a splendid villa for his own use and allows the owner, Herr Lubert, a German architect and significantly, a widower, to remain in the house with his own surly, indoctrinated daughter, Freda. He also, in 1943, lost a child due to a Luftwaffe bomb and he must support his deeply grieving wife, Rachel, when she arrives after months of separation with their surviving twelve year old boy, the impressionable Edmund. However, Colonel Morgan must first deal with the human cost of the bombing including remnants of fanatic Nazis, the trummerkind - children of the rubble, and the starving civil populace. The British have occupied the ruined city and Colonel Lewis Morgan, an officer and a gentleman, is charged with overseeing the restoration of order. ![]() The Aftermath is set amongst the devastated ruins in the fire-bombed city of Hamburg in 1946. It depicts the personal struggles as two families one British and one German struggle to rebuild their lives and overcome the enmity and grief incurred during the War. Summary: About to be developed as a feature film this arresting, surprising and moving novel is set in the British Occupied Zone including Hamburg in 1946. ![]()
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