First edition, first printing. 96pp, occasional monochrome illustrations, map. Glazed pictorial boards. 8vo. Boards very slightly bruised at spine ends.
Elsbeth was five years old when the second world war started. This is her story of growing up during the war in Germany, a mixture of typical childhood experiences and the horrors of war on the home front, her father away fighting on the Eastern Front, her grandfather taken away by the Gestapo and her embarrassment at having to peform the Nazi salute in shop and her fear of the shadow of war. A unique account of unhappiness, excitment, terror and joy.
