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An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the eastern front, raising the fundamental questions of individual and collective guilt. --Antony Beevor, Pritzker Award-winning author of Stalingrad and the #1 International Bestseller The Second World War We Germans is a remarkable and audacious novel that is harrowingly real and, at the same time, asks the most searching questions about men at war. --William Boyd, Booker Prize finalist and author of Any Human Heart and Restless Striking... Vividly done... The book has a gritty realism... We Germans is a visceral examination of guilt, collective and individual. --Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times

An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the eastern front, raising the fundamental questions of individual and collective guilt. --Antony Beevor, Pritzker Award-winning author of Stalingrad and the #1 International Bestseller The Second World War We Germans is a remarkable and audacious novel that is harrowingly real and, at the same time, asks the most searching questions about men at war. --William Boyd, Booker Prize finalist and author of Any Human Heart and Restless

We Germans is a remarkable and audacious novel that is harrowingly real and, at the same time, asks the most searching questions about men at war. --William Boyd, Booker Prize finalist and author of Any Human Heart and Restless An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the eastern front, raising the fundamental questions of individual and collective guilt. --Antony Beevor, Pritzker Award-winning author of Stalingrad and the #1 International Bestseller The Second World War Striking... Vividly done... The book has a gritty realism... We Germans is a visceral examination of guilt, collective and individual. --Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times Haunting... Daringly, in this slim, taut novel, Alexander Starritt climbs into the skin of one of the most appalling archetypes of the 20th century: a Nazi soldier... Starritt's descriptions of conflict are shocking... We Germans captures the terrible moment of realization when it dawns on the once-swaggering, all-conquering Nazis that they are going to be crushed... Although no readers are likely to admire the soldier's wartime actions, they will at least be confronted by his experiences as both killer and victim. --John Thornhill, Financial Times A small masterpiece... Starritt shows courage in his approach... A risky, provocative novel with exceptional writing. --Kirkus Reviews Starritt's prose is riveting. It unspools like a roll of film--raw, visceral, and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty . . . As I struggle to make sense of the polarized world we live in today, We Germans feels eerily timely. Meissner's and Callum's puzzlements are ours: How do we hold ourselves--and our ancestors--accountable for past wrongs? How do we acknowledge and atone for a nation's violations? Starritt's daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories, to seek answers from the past, and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own. --Georgia Hunter, New York Times Book Review A thoughtful, unsettling chronicle... Starritt's gritty depictions of the horrors of war and the moral choices faced by soldiers add intensity to the ruminations on courage. This is a fascinatingly enigmatic addition to the literature of Germany's coming to terms with the past. --Publishers Weekly We Germans will intrigue fans of introspective, morally complex war fiction narrated from the perspective of those who served, such as works by war veterans Tim O'Brien and Phil Klay. --Lindsay Harmon, Booklist

We Germans is a remarkable and audacious novel that is harrowingly real and, at the same time, asks the most searching questions about men at war. --William Boyd, Booker Prize finalist and author of Any Human Heart and Restless An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the eastern front, raising the fundamental questions of individual and collective guilt. --Antony Beevor, Pritzker Award-winning author of Stalingrad and the #1 International Bestseller The Second World War Striking... Vividly done... The book has a gritty realism... We Germans is a visceral examination of guilt, collective and individual. --Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times Haunting... Daringly, in this slim, taut novel, Alexander Starritt climbs into the skin of one of the most appalling archetypes of the 20th century: a Nazi soldier... Starritt's descriptions of conflict are shocking... We Germans captures the terrible moment of realization when it dawns on the once-swaggering, all-conquering Nazis that they are going to be crushed... Although no readers are likely to admire the soldier's wartime actions, they will at least be confronted by his experiences as both killer and victim. --John Thornhill, Financial Times A small masterpiece... Starritt shows courage in his approach... A risky, provocative novel with exceptional writing. --Kirkus Reviews Starritt's prose is riveting. It unspools like a roll of film--raw, visceral, and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty . . . As I struggle to make sense of the polarized world we live in today, We Germans feels eerily timely. Meissner's and Callum's puzzlements are ours: How do we hold ourselves--and our ancestors--accountable for past wrongs? How do we acknowledge and atone for a nation's violations? Starritt's daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories, to seek answers from the past, and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own. --Georgia Hunter, New York Times Book Review A thoughtful, unsettling chronicle... Starritt's gritty depictions of the horrors of war and the moral choices faced by soldiers add intensity to the ruminations on courage. This is a fascinatingly enigmatic addition to the literature of Germany's coming to terms with the past. --Publishers Weekly We Germans will intrigue fans of introspective, morally complex war fiction narrated from the perspective of those who served, such as works by war veterans Tim O'Brien and Phil Klay. --Lindsay Harmon, Booklist We Germans stands out among WWII novels...a quick and compelling read. --Lorelei Brush, Historical Novel Society

An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the eastern front, raising the fundamental questions of individual and collective guilt. --Antony Beevor, Pritzker Award-winning author of Stalingrad and the #1 International Bestseller The Second World War Haunting... Daringly, in this slim, taut novel, Alexander Starritt climbs into the skin of one of the most appalling archetypes of the 20th century: a Nazi soldier... Starritt's descriptions of conflict are shocking... We Germans captures the terrible moment of realization when it dawns on the once-swaggering, all-conquering Nazis that they are going to be crushed... Although no readers are likely to admire the soldier's wartime actions, they will at least be confronted by his experiences as both killer and victim. --John Thornhill, Financial Times Striking... Vividly done... The book has a gritty realism... We Germans is a visceral examination of guilt, collective and individual. --Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times We Germans is a remarkable and audacious novel that is harrowingly real and, at the same time, asks the most searching questions about men at war. --William Boyd, Booker Prize finalist and author of Any Human Heart and Restless We Germans will intrigue fans of introspective, morally complex war fiction narrated from the perspective of those who served, such as works by war veterans Tim O'Brien and Phil Klay. --Lindsay Harmon, Booklist We Germans stands out among WWII novels...a quick and compelling read. --Lorelei Brush, Historical Novel Society A small masterpiece... Starritt shows courage in his approach... A risky, provocative novel with exceptional writing. --Kirkus Reviews A thoughtful, unsettling chronicle... Starritt's gritty depictions of the horrors of war and the moral choices faced by soldiers add intensity to the ruminations on courage. This is a fascinatingly enigmatic addition to the literature of Germany's coming to terms with the past. --Publishers Weekly Starritt's prose is riveting. It unspools like a roll of film--raw, visceral, and propulsive, rich with sensory detail and unsparing in its depictions of cruelty . . . As I struggle to make sense of the polarized world we live in today, We Germans feels eerily timely. Meissner's and Callum's puzzlements are ours: How do we hold ourselves--and our ancestors--accountable for past wrongs? How do we acknowledge and atone for a nation's violations? Starritt's daring work challenges us to lay bare our histories, to seek answers from the past, and to be open to perspectives starkly different from our own. --Georgia Hunter, New York Times Book Review

An impressively realistic novel of German soldiers on the eastern front, raising the fundamental questions of individual and collective guilt. --Antony Beevor, Pritzker Award-winning author of Stalingrad and the #1 International Bestseller The Second World War

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Alexander Starritt has written for a wide variety of publications, including Newsweek, The Guard­ian, the Daily Mail, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is also a translator of German and has translated the works of Franz Kafka and Stefan Zweig, among others, into English. Born to a Scottish father and a German mother, he grew up in the northeast of Scotland and lives in London.

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