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In the Booker Prize nominee and Whitbread Prize winner, a significant story concerning the nature of human liberty and human enthusiasm that received great praise in hardcover.On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He discovered the primary conspirators and had them hanged from meat hooks. Axel, Count von Gottberg, was some of those hanged by Hitler. Sixty years later, Conrad Mature, a former pupil of 1 of Axel’s most-trusted friends, is left a number of his private documents and is instantly drawn right into a web of love, jealousy, and betrayal.