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The Kindly Ones
Les Bienveillantes
Jonathan Littell (born 1967)
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
English editions
In EnglishThe Kindly Ones
Harper · United States · 2009 · Hardcover · 983 pages
The Kindly Ones
Chatto & Windus · United Kingdom · 2009 · 983 pages
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Max Aue, now managing a lace factory in northern France, writes his war memoir late in life, unrepentant. The son of a French mother and a German father who vanished, a law graduate drawn to Nazi extremism, he joins the SS and in 1941 follows the army east with a mobile killing unit, taking part as policing turns into systematic murder, from Ukraine and the Caucasus to Stalingrad and Berlin's fall.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 903 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, 1941–1945
- First published
- 2006 by Gallimard
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9782070780976 (original)
9780061353451 (Harper, United States)
9780701181659 (Chatto & Windus, United Kingdom)
- More
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