This is an important book. Peter Henisch has style and he has ideas--and he has courage, because this is a book--completely based on his own life's experience, and that of his father--that deals with an astonishing story: that of a man (his father) who knew he had a Jewish background, who, from force of circumstances, and his own ambition, spend WW II as a leading photojournalist for the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front. What a story. And how interesting pyschologically! I don't know of any young Austrian writer (Henisch was born in 1943) who tries to come to grips with the texture of Nazism just this way--and how it appealled to people, even a partly Jewsih person. There is no book like this. It should be read.