A powerful memoir uncovering a family's devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival in the Second World War. We see the story of Finkelstein's maternal grandfather, Alfred Weiner, a leader in Berlin's Jewish community who began warning the world of rising fascism in his beloved Germany. On his father's side, Finkelstein unfolds the horrors that evolved under Soviet threat after Poland was carved up between Hitler and Stalin. From the former executive editor of The Times Daniel Finkelstein.