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Author:

Fallada, Hans, 1893-1947.

Title:

Every man dies alone / Hans Fallada ; translated by Michael Hofmann ; afterword by Geoff Wilkes.

Publisher:

Melville House Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

539 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Berlin--Berlin--Fiction.
Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
Nazis--Berlin--Berlin--Fiction.
Anti-Nazi movement--Germany--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Hofmann, Michael.
Wilkes, Geoff.

Other Titles:

Jeder stirbt für sich allein. English.

Notes:

First Melville House paperback printed: February 2010. First published in German as Jeder stirbt für sich allein. Berlin : Aufbau, 1947. "Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did not live to see his its publication."--p. 4 of cover. "This volume includes: An afterword telling the shocking story of Hans Fallada's life ; Excerpts from the original Gestapo files the story is based upon ; A readers' guide for book clubs."--p. 4 of cover.

Contents:

The Quangels -- The Gestapo -- Things begin to go against the Quangels -- The end.

Summary:

"Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did not live to see his its publication"--P. 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781935554271
1935554271
1935554042
9781935554042

OCLC:

(OCoLC)436030080

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KIPA631 -- Bussey Community Library (Bussey)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

KHPB566 -- Donnellson Public Library (Donnellson)

VGPC334 -- Fayette Community Library (Fayette)

XIPA157 -- Lewis Public Library (Lewis)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

EMPB715 -- Primghar Public Library (Primghar) — F Fall

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)