The undertaking
By: Audrey Magee
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782391050
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love, however, when Peter and Katharina finally meet passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt.