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TRUE TO BOTH MY SELVES is an extraordinary account of a childhood disjointed by country and by war. Curiously mirroring her English grandmother, who married a German hairdresser in London and was then expelled to Germany following the First World War, Katrin Fitzherbert was born in Germany in 1936 and lived under Hitler's regime until, at the age of eleven, she was suddenly 'repatriated' to an England she had never known. There she had to forget her German father and the German language. This is the story of three generations of remarkablewomen, and their struggle for survival and integrity as ndividuals in times divided by war.… (plus d'informations)
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'It can be the lot of few to be so missed by those they leave behind'
A History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War by Desmond FitzGerald
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To the memory of Elsie Hope (1890-1961)
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Captain Harry FitzHerbert, the father-in-law I never met, killed in action in Gildenhaus, Germany, 2 April 1945
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Until that day in the spring of 1951 when my mother handed me a sheaf of parchment papers tied up in pink legal ribbon and labelled 'Pedigree', I had always assumed that only dogs and racehorses had such things. (Prologue)
My grandmother Ethel was a spirited Londoner, very tiny (five foot with an eighteen-inch waist), very pretty, entertaining and, when necessary, very fierce.
On Saturday, 12 September 1993, my closest living relatives and I met up together in Totnes cemetery. (Epilogue)
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No present could have given me greater pleasure than my beautiful new pedigree, and I gave my mother a grateful hug. (Prologue)
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TRUE TO BOTH MY SELVES is an extraordinary account of a childhood disjointed by country and by war. Curiously mirroring her English grandmother, who married a German hairdresser in London and was then expelled to Germany following the First World War, Katrin Fitzherbert was born in Germany in 1936 and lived under Hitler's regime until, at the age of eleven, she was suddenly 'repatriated' to an England she had never known. There she had to forget her German father and the German language. This is the story of three generations of remarkablewomen, and their struggle for survival and integrity as ndividuals in times divided by war.
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