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The Kaiser's Last Kiss

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A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm's last years in Nazi-occupied Holland.

It is 1940 and the exiled Kaiser is living in Holland, at his palace Huis Doorn.The old German king spends his days chopping logs and musing on what might have been.

When the Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser's Dutch staff are replaced by SS guards, led by young, eager Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and an unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper. While they agree on the rightfulness of German expansion and on holding the country's Jewish population accountable for all ills, they disagree on the solutions. Krebbs's growing attraction and love affair with Akki, a Jewish maid in the house, further undermines his belief in Nazism. But as the tides of war roll around them, all three find themselves increasingly compromised and gravely at risk.

This subtle, tender novel borrows heavily from real history and events, but remains a work of superlative, literary fiction.Through Judd's depiction of the Lear-like Kaiser and the softening of brutal Krebbs, the novel draws unique parallels between Germany at the turn of the 20th century and Hitler's Germany.

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ISBN: 9780007124473
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Author: Alan Judd
Publisher: Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 184 pages
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Second World War fiction
Narrative theme: Politics
Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Historical Fiction