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“The sorrow and the pity of World War I haunt every page of this unsparing coming-of-age story set in Berlin during the war’s final days. Monika Schröder skillfully sketches in the fractured political background of a disintegrating Imperial Germany without missing a beat in her fast-paced, first-person narrative as 16-year-old Moritz copes with his family’s misfortunes, finds his calling, and discovers love. I found the innocence of the meetings between Moritz and his girlfriend Rebecca particularly affecting, and because she happens to be Jewish, the story ends on a note of foreboding. This is a memorable and instructive novel.”
Russell Freedman, author of The War to end all Wars: World War I