![]() ![]() ![]() Judith Kerr was born in Berlin, the daughter of a distinguished German writer. “Exact, intelligent and unsentimental.” – Sunday Telegraph ![]() “A charming and touching book, often very funny” – Daily Mail “An extremely exciting adventure story.” – Daily Express “A compassionate introduction to the whole subject of World War II” – Books for your Children Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – home and schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out of Germany… One day, her father was unaccountably missing. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life.Īnna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War ![]()
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