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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
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Ernst Graeber has spent two years with the German army on the Eastern Front when he receives three weeks of leave. He returns to a bomb-damaged town, finds his home destroyed and his parents missing, and discovers that civilian life is governed by the same fear, surveillance and moral compromise as the battlefield.
Graeber’s renewed friendship with Elisabeth Kruse becomes a brief love affair conducted under air raids and Nazi repression. As his leave ends, the novel forces him to measure personal loyalty against his part in a destructive war, linking the retreat in the Soviet Union to the collapse of the German home front.
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