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100 1 $aHarding, Thomas,$d1968-$eauthor.
245 14$aThe house by the lake :$bone house, five families, and a hundred years of German history /$cThomas Harding.
250 $aFirst Picador paperback edition.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2017.
300 $axxv, 442 p., 8 unnumbered p. :$billustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical tables ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 411-414) and index.
520 $aIn the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she had been forced to flee to England as the Nazis swept to power. Nearly twenty years later, the house was government property and soon to be demolished. It was Harding's legacy, one that had been loved, abandoned, fought over. As Harding began to make inquiries, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades about the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all -- bar one -- had been forced out. Harding realized that there was a chance to save it.-- Provided by publisher.
600 10$aHarding, Thomas,$d1968-$xFamily.
600 30$aAlexander family.
600 30$aMeisel family.
650 0$aHistoric buildings$zGermany$zPotsdam Region.
650 0$aFamilies$zGermany$zPotsdam$vBiography.
650 0$aJews$zGermany$zPotsdam$vBiography.
650 0$aVacation homes$zGermany$zBerlin Suburban Area.
650 0$aHistoric buildings$zGermany$zBerlin Suburban Area.
651 0$aPotsdam (Germany)$xHistory.
651 0$aPotsdam (Germany)$xBuildings, structures, etc.$xHistory.
651 0$aPotsdam (Germany)$vBiography.