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Примечание: Биография императора Петра III (1728-1762). Полный вариант заголовка: «Biographie Peters des Dritten Kaisers aller Reussen : zur unpartheyischen Ansicht der Wirkung der damaligen Revolution, und zur Berichtigung der Beurtheilung des Charakters Catharinens II. / von Herrn von Saldern ; Nach dem Fr. ubers.».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Anekdoten aus dem Privatleben der Kaiserin Catharina, Pauls des Ersten und seiner Familie».

Примечание: История римлян от основания Рима до падения Западной Римской империи. Полный вариант заголовка: «Dr. Goldsmiths Geschichte der Romer von Erbauung der Stadt Rom bis auf den Untergang des abendlandischen Kaisertums : Aus dem Engl. Bd. 2».

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.