Crabwalk Condition:Very Good Barbara McFarland

Barbara McFarland

Sometimes savage

"Hometown"

a wide selection of paintings and photographs and excellent maps

'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language

Crabwalk Condition:Very Good Barbara McFarlandGnter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff . A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some 9,000 people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of