The End and the Beginning by K. J. Holdom

A young boy faces the final wartime months

Excellent Condition - Covers have light scuffing and minor corner wear.

Fourteen-year-old Max Lauterbach is caught in the upheaval of the final stages of the Second World War, when the demands of the Hitler Youth and the SS draw him away from ordinary childhood. His relationship with Margarette, a French forced labourer, offers a connection that the war continually threatens, while events in Bavaria expose him to loss, fear and the collapse of familiar certainties. Based on a young boy's wartime experiences, K. J. Holdom's novel follows Max through a world being violently remade. It explores the destruction of innocence alongside the hope of survival, reunion and a future beyond the conflict.