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Children and fire : a novel / Ursula Hegi.

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Overview

Summary: Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Köppen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Hegi, Ursula.
Published: New York : Scribner, 2011
Locale: Germany
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 9781451608304
9781451608298
9781451608311
Physical Description: 272 pages ; 25 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Women teachers--Fiction. Schoolboys--Fiction. Villages--Fiction. National socialism--Fiction. Influence (Psychology)--Fiction. Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. Novels.

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