Feuchtwanger, E. J

The author writes of his Jewish childhood growing up in Munich in the 1930s, where Adolf Hitler was his neighbor. Describes the Nazi rise to power, and how his life became a nightmare as his family struggled to survive.

Presents a biography of Otto von Bismarck and assesses his significance as a nineteenth-century reactionary and statesman credited with the development of a common currency and central bank in Germany as well as providing benefits for the sick, elderly, and the injured.