A Prize-winning Dutch Journalists Unsparing Memoir Of Growing Up Amid The Excesses, Triumphs, And Devastation Of Postworld War Ii Europe.what Can A Son Say Upon Discovering That His Father Wore A Nazi Uniform? Reporter Alexander Mnninghoff Was Only Four When He Found This Mortifying Relic From His Fathers Recent Past In His Attic. This Shameful Memento Came To Symbolize Not Only His Fathers Tragically Misguided Allegiance But Also A Shattered Marriage And Ultimately The Unconscionable Separation Of A Mother And This Revelatory Memoir, The Author Confronts His Parents Complex Past As He Reconstructs The Fortunes And Disillusions Of An Entire Family Upheaved During The Changes Of Twentieth-century Europe.