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Thomas Harding

Biography

Thomas Harding

Thomas Harding is an author and journalist who has written for the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian, among other publications. He co-founded a television station in Oxford, England, and for many years was an award-winning publisher of a newspaper in West Virginia. He is the author of THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE and lives in Hampshire, England.

Thomas Harding

Books by Thomas Harding

The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History
by Thomas Harding - History, Nonfiction

In 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been her “soul place,” she said --- a holiday home for her and her family, but also a refuge --- until the 1930s, when the Nazis’ rise to power forced them to leave. The trip was his grandmother’s chance to remember her childhood sanctuary as it was. But the house had changed, and when Harding returned nearly 20 years later, it was about to be demolished. Slowly he began to piece together the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all but one had been forced out.