num_pages: 204
description: Author Marion Donhoff, editor and publisher of Germany's leading newspaper Die Zeit, is known as an outspoken voice of reason and common sense in a country torn by self-doubt, confused pride, and guilty reproach about its past. She is also one of the surviving members of a great and noble family that lived on a celebrated estate in East Prussia, lost to Russia and the Red Army in 1945.
language: English
title: Before The Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia
titlecomplete: Before The Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia
genres: Historical, History, World War II, Germany, German Literature, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 145
publisher: Knopf