description: On 20 July l944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped death when an assassin's bomb failed to kill him in his Eastern command, the Wolf's Lair. The conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and their executions were filmed. Among them was Axel von Gottberg. Sixty years after his death, von Gottberg's close friend and now a legendary Oxford professor, Elya Mendel, leaves a legacy of papers and letters to a former student, Conrad Senior. Senior becomes obsessed with what they reveal, but as he becomes more and more involved with the past his own relationship with his wife Francine begins to fall apart. The friendship between Mendel and von Gottberg is fatally undermined by a romantic rivalry when two mysterious cousins, Rosamund and Elizabeth, enter their lives in a richly imagined pre-war Jerusalem.
language: English
title: The Song Before It Is Sung
titlecomplete: The Song Before It Is Sung
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, British Literature, World War II, Espionage, Germany, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 574
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC