{"product_id":"notes-from-fuhrer-hq","title":"Notes from Führer HQ","description":"\u003cb\u003eFascinating, eerily poetic dispatches from inside Hitler’s war machine, translated into English for the first time, from a mysterious and tragic figure in German literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFelix Hartlaub is one of the most enigmatic figures of 20th-century German literature. As a young writer of blazing promise, he went missing in the final days of the Second World War, leaving behind diaries, notes, and incomplete drafts that provide a singularly evocative portrait of life during the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1941, Hartlaub was posted in various Nazi military command headquarters, a historian tasked with writing the Wehrmacht’s official and up-to-the-minute record of the war. In private, he wrote the disaffected, ruthlessly clear-eyed and often beautiful fragments that make up \u003ci\u003eNotes from Führer HQ\u003c\/i\u003e, now translated into English for the first time by the acclaimed Michael Hofmann.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving from a strangely bucolic barracks in Ukraine to tense bureaucratic headquarters on the Eastern Front to the bizarre micro-climate of a command train, these dispatches conjure the absurdity and turmoil of life within Hitler’s war machine. Soldiers peacock in the late summer heat, trading intel on the local women; officials have guarded conversations in an atmosphere of suffocating anxiety; as the command train hurtles through a chaotic Germany, its shadowy compartments are the scene of booze-fueled assignations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of vivid insights and unsettling plays with tone and perspective, \u003ci\u003eNotes from Führer HQ \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the nightmare of daily life in Nazi headquarters through the eyes of a remarkably perceptive, disabused observer.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507860480373,"sku":"9781805680086","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781805680086.jpg?v=1787043000","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/notes-from-fuhrer-hq","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}