The Kindly Ones: A chilling Second World War novel following an SS officer from the Eastern Front to the ruins of Berlin
Jonathan Littell
Nov 2009 · Random House
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Dr Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, looks back on the Eastern Front, Stalingrad, and the death camps as Nazi Germany falls.
Set during the Second World War on the Eastern Front and in Berlin, The Kindly Ones is narrated by Dr Max Aue, who is both a cultivated intellectual and a participant in Nazi atrocities.
From Stalingrad to the death camps and the nightmarish fall of Berlin, The Kindly Ones places Max Aue among figures including Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer and Hitler.
As the Third Reich falls, Max reflects on the career that took him through mass murder and bureaucratic power, insisting on his own version of events.
Dr Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, looks back on the Eastern Front, Stalingrad, and the death camps as Nazi Germany falls.
Set during the Second World War on the Eastern Front and in Berlin, The Kindly Ones is narrated by Dr Max Aue, who is both a cultivated intellectual and a partici...
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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
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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.
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 w...
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