The Kindly Ones
Nov 2009 · Random House
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Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, he was present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally caught up in the overthrow of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin. His world was peopled by Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer and, of course, Hitler himself.
Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight.
Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight.
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Roy Beiley
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January 8, 2014
As a chronological account of the initial success then total failure of the war on the Eastern Front, the book is an excellent read. The earlier chapters are a mixture of the horrors inflicted by the SS on "enemies of the Reich" and well written prose describing the beauty of some of the locations, especially those of the Caucasus. Only ever having seen old Black and White newsreel footage of thr war in these locations, I found this dychotomy particularly fascinating. Best book I have read in ages
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November 13, 2020
big one
About the author
Jonathan Littell was born in 1967 in New York of American parents and brought up and educated mainly in France. This novel, originally published in France as Les Bienveillantes, became a bestseller and won the coveted Prix Goncourt and the Académie Française's Prix de Littérature. Previously he worked for the humanitarian agency, Action contre la faim, in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He now lives in Spain.
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