Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor

This is a really powerful story about how the Nazi Germany comes about. The book is a series of fictional letters (based on real news stories) between two very old friends in business together. At the start of the story, the German heads back to live in Germany, while the American Jew deals with their Art business in America.

It details the excitement the German feels as Hitler comes to power, and then the gradual decline in relationships between the two old friends. When the German friend becomes directly responsible for the death of his ex-Jewish lover (The daughter of his American friend), by refusing to hide her, they fall out and things become nasty.

It took me several reads to work out was was happening later in the book - and reading the afterword first would have helped me considerably.

It is a great way of introducing students to a different view of the world, as so many will start out by saying they would never follow the Nazi way - but then they will see it wasn't a sudden decision, more a long drawn out bit by bit process.

I would recommend anyone to buy this book and share it or just for their own interest. It provides a teacher with a lot of background knowledge about life just before the war - helping them to explain why a war may have taken place and why the German population supported Hitler in the process.

I would love to hear anyone elses comments about this book.

Great Second World War Sound Effects

I would highly recommend any teacher teaching about the Second World War to click on this site - BBC World War 2 Sound Effects as it has lots of different clips from the time.

I used this as an effective way of adding some atmosphere to my school prodcution about Evacuees in the second world war.

This site also has lots of useful links for people to guide them onto all the other information they need for this topic.

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