The House by the Lake : One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History

from vpfluke

This was a book chosen by reference librarian at my local North Bellmore library for one of our monthly non-fiction reads. It was a good choice. Thomas Harding is a good writer and takes you long for a survey of a little know story to which he has a direct connection. Groß Glenicke was a suburban...

from jimrbrown

This is a fascinating story of a small summer house on a lake near Berlin and the families who lived in it over almost 100 years. That time covers the rise of Nazism, WW2, the Communist regime post-war , the Berlin Wall (built in the land between the house and the lake) and the reunification of G...

from knittingmomof3

Thomas Harding's The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History is a masterful work of non-fiction, as Harding and his grandmother, in 1999, return to Germany to visit his grandmother's old summer house, a place she had to leave in the 1930s to escape the N...

from TheWasp

The Alexanders were a Jewish family who had to abandon the home they built by the lake at Gross Gleniecke outside Berlin. This is the history of the house and times of the people who subsequently lived in the house and the authors quest to save the house from destruction. It was also a very inter...

from vpfluke

This was a book chosen by reference librarian at my local North Bellmore library for one of our monthly non-fiction reads. It was a good choice. Thomas Harding is a good writer and takes you long for a survey of a little know story to which he has a direct connection. Groß Glenicke was a suburban...