The German Officer’s Boy by Harlan Greene

A cult favorite by the author of What the Dead Remember and The German Officer’s Boy, Harlan Greene’s debut novel is restored to print with a new afterword revealing the facts upon which it is based. As an old man confronts those demanding the truth, a story of love, betrayal and the deadly consequences of repression unfolds. Decades later, whispers emerge of something baffling and tragic that happened back then. For those young men and women fortunate enough to come from the right families, life in Charleston was a party-one where the latest craze was a strange new dance called “The Charleston.” But some young men were forced to seek their romances in the shadows-where judgment and the law have trouble identifying exactly who is who. Summary The cult classic novel set in the gay underground of 1920s Charleston-with a new afterword by the Lambda Literary Award-winning author. In spare, vivid, and compelling prose, Greene imagines their world, their relationship, and their last horrific encounter, as they tried to wrest love and meaning from a world that would itself soon disappear in a whirlwind of disaster and madness.READ Why We Never Danced the Charleston Harlan Greene

Historians have tried to explain away Herschel Grynszpan's claim that he was involved in a love affair with vom Rath Greene, instead, traces the lives of the underprivileged and persecuted Herschel Grynszpan and the wealthy German diplomat Ernst vom Rath as they move inevitably towards their ill-fated affair. In this historical novel, award-winning writer Harlan Greene may be the first author to take the Polish Jew at his word. Lost and overlooked in the aftermath is the arresting story of Herschel Grynszpan, the confused teenager whose murder of Ernst vom Rath was used to justify Kristallnacht. Synopsis: What really happened that afternoon in November 1938, when the young Polish Jew walked into the German embassy in Paris and shots rang out? The immediate consequence was concrete: Nazi Germany retaliated with the 'Night of Broken Glass,' recognized as the beginning of the Holocaust.

The German Officer’s Boy by Harlan Greene