Max Egremont - Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

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This book has relied upon the help of many people, none of whom should be held at all responsible for what I have written.

I particularly thank Antony Beevor; Jan Bielecki; Gottfried von Bismarck; Karl Heinz Bohrer; Governor Georgy Boos; Tessa Capponi; Piet Chielens and Fernand Vanrobaeys of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres; Jan Dalley; Olga Danilova; Norman Davies; Johann van der Decken; Stephen and Irina Dewar; Frank Dombrowski; the late Marion Dnhoff; Vladimir Gilmanov; Anthony Griffiths; Lorenz Grimoni; Christoph von Grote; Neiti Gowrie; Eleonore von Haeften; Max Hastings; Guido Herz; Alexei Ignatiev; Tadeusz Iwnski; Josef and Christine Joffe; Daniel Johnson; Peter and Elfi Johnson; Laurence Kelly; Eduard Kurilovich; Kornelia Kurowski and the staff of Borussia in Olsztyn; Karl von Lehndorff; Krystana Lewnska, the Mayor of Frombork; Irene Lipowicz; Klaus and Vladimira Lunau; Dr Tomasz Makowski, director of the National Library in Warsaw; Dr Wadysaw Mak ut; Keith Middlemas; Stephen Nicholls; Paul Oestreicher; Michael Pakenham; Andrej Portnjagin; Tim Robb; John Rhl; Ernie and Carol Rothkopf; Helmut Schmidt; Angela Schock-Hurst; Xan Smiley; Eugeniusz Smolar; Alexander Songal; Carl Leopold and Margot von Spaeth; Hartmut Pogge von Strandman; Dr Mirosaw Supruniuk, director of the library of the University of Torun; Gina Thomas; Michel Tournier; Vygaudas Uackas; Stefan Wagstyl; Michael and Miriam Wieck; Henning von Wistinghausen; Magnus von Wistinghausen; Kazimierz Wycicki; Peter Wunsch; Adam Zamoyski; Rafal Zytyniec.

For much of my research, I have relied on the patient staffs of The British Library, The German Historical Institute in London, The London Library, The National Archives at Kew and The Wiener Library. My agent Gill Coleridge has been most supportive throughout, as have my two remarkable editors: Kate Harvey at Picador inLondon (who inherited this book but has adopted it with sensitivity and enthusiasm) and Jonathan Galassi at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York. Peter James has, as usual, been an excellent, probing copy-editor. For loving calm and tolerance at home and an apparent wish still, after many years, to hear about what I am writing I owe my wife, Caroline, more than I can possibly express.

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FICTION
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Dear Shadows
Painted Lives
Second Spring