Book jacket image for Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger

Random House Audio

9781101888902

STARRED REVIEW

Fatherland

New Yorker staff writer Burkhard Bilger’s narration of his book reflects the ambiguity of his family’s history.

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Review of ‘Fatherland’

In Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets (9 hours), New Yorker staff writer Burkhard Bilger recounts his search for the truth about his grandfather, Karl Gönner, a former Nazi party chief who was credited with shielding an Alsace village from Nazi reprisals—and also accused of being a war criminal who ordered the death…

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