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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad 2023
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival is a memoir written by Daniel Finkelstein. It was initially published in June 2023 within the United Kingdom through William Collins, and later released in the United States under the title Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Doubleday in September 2023. The book recounts the persecution faced by his Jewish parents during the Second World War, describing how his mother survived Hitler's concentration camps and how his father suffered through forced labor and starvation in Stalin's Siberian Gulag.
Finkelstein works as a British journalist and politician. He serves as a political columnist and previously held the position of executive editor at The Times in London, and was appointed to the House of Lords in August 2013.
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad received the 2023 British literary magazine Slightly Foxed’s "Best First Biography Prize", was nominated as a finalist in the 2023 National Jewish Book Awards, and was listed among the contenders for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Several publications chose this memoir as one of their top books of 2023, such as the Financial Times, The Spectator, and The Economist.
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- Cover artist
- Emma Pidsley
Details
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- ISBN
- 9780008483845
- Pages
- 496
- Format
- print (hardback)
