Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Shortlisted for the Prix
Femina 2022 Shortlisted for the Prix Medicis 2022 'An impressively
realistic novel of German soldiers on the Eastern Front' Antony
Beevor 'Starritt's daring work challenges us to lay bare our
histories, to seek answers from the past, and to be open to
perspectives starkly different from our own' New York Times When a
young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to
fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is initially met
with irritation and silence. But after the old man's death, a long
letter to his grandson is found among his things. That letter is
this book. In it, he relates the experiences of an unlikely few
days on the Eastern Front - at a moment when he knows not only that
Germany is going to lose the war, but that it deserves to. He
writes about his everyday experience amid horror, confusion and
great bravery, and he asks himself what responsibility he bears for
the circumstances he found himself in. As he tries to find an
answer he can live with, we hear from his grandson what kind of man
he became in the seventy years after the war. We Germans is a
fundamentally human novel that grapples with the most profound of
questions about guilt, shame and responsibility - questions that
remain as live today as they have always been.
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