Thomas hates his job, he drinks too much, and he realizes that from boyhood he has been driven to be better than his father. Thomas dreams of the man who became a stranger the day he joined up - and who was there to blame but Hitler? The novel entwines domestic life with history at the sharp end.
- ISBN10 0575062843
- ISBN13 9780575062849
- Publish Date 20 February 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English