In My Grandfather's Shadow - A story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence

A page turner of the highest calibre! Meticulously researched, searingly honest and beautifully written, this timely book is a salient reminder of how intergenerational relationships connect threads between past and present. The author skillfully excavates her grandfather''s life putting the family puzzle together piece by piece to create a forensic and fascinating portrait of the past. Her book gives new meaning to the prescient words of psychoanalyst, Roger Woolger: ''It is the responsibility of the living to heal the dead. Otherwise their unfinished business will continue to play out in our fears, phobias and illnesses.

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A remarkable cross-pollination of memoir, psychology and history in which the author comes to grips with being the granddaughter of a Nazi general. i Paper

Product details

• Authors: Angela Findlay
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.04.2022
• EAN: 9780552177726
• ISBN: 978-0-552-17772-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Military / World War II, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Group, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, SELF-HELP / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma & shock, Social, group or collective psychology, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Trauma and shock, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General